Aerospace Engineering PhD researcher @KingstonUni - EDL recovery systems. Also Rockets & Propulsion, Space Archaeology & Polar. FBIS FRAS.
Oct 9, 2018 • 59 tweets • 25 min read
After a recent tweet by a friend of mine who was dismayed that no-one cared about the lunar rovers on the moon’s surface, I decided to make a thread on rovers – both manned and robotic.
So here we go …….. “Rovers – Past, Present and Future.”
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Rovers had been planned for the surfaces of other planets since the early 1950s but it wasn’t until the Soviet Union launched Luna 17 carrying the Lunokhod 1 rover on 10th Nov 1970 that this became a reality.
