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    Re: Lunar Rover (foldable) —Steven Vore
   (...) [begin computer voice]Working...[end computer voice] Great challenge, Steve. I wish you had asked (or I had seen the quesion) earlier; my son was at the Huntsville Space & Rocket Center last week and could have checked there. I thought it was (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Lunar Rover (foldable) —Jeremy H. Sproat
     (...) Neil, do you mean to tell me that we came over 238,000 miles, and you forgot to bring the *film*?!? Great! After I eat this ravioli, I'm gonna tell Mission Control just what I think of you! ...erm, Neil, where's the can opener? ;-) Cheers, - (...) (25 years ago, 15-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
    
         Re: Lunar Rover (foldable) —Larry Pieniazek
      (...) Who is Neil? I think the Rover was an extra cost option that was only available on later model years... IIRC only 17,18, and 19 had it. (15 and 16 had a little cart that you pulled???) Mr Armstrong only went on 11. (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
     
          Re: Lunar Rover (foldable) —Jeremy H. Sproat
       (...) Oops. :-, Yet another excellent reason to not pay for my tours at the Smithsonian Air & Space museum. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
     
          Re: Lunar Rover (foldable) —Steven Vore
      (...) 15, 16 & 17. Gene Cernan's the last (so far) to walk on the Moon. (URL) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
     
          Re: Lunar Rover (foldable) —Larry Pieniazek
      Right. They killed 18 and 19. Sigh. (...) (25 years ago, 16-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
     
          Re: Lunar Rover (foldable) —Steven Vore
       "Larry Pieniazek" <lar@voyager.net> wrote in message news:38AB139F.CC97B1...ger.net... (...) yea. big-time downer. sorry for the quick correction, but you had caught me in the Space mood (and while I was wearing a Space & Rocket Center shirt, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
     
          Re: Lunar Rover (foldable) —Steve Bliss
      (...) And 20. Steve (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
    
         Re: Lunar Rover (foldable) —Steve Bliss
     (...) Be sure to drink all your Tang. Steve (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
    
         Re: Lunar Rover (foldable) —Todd Lehman
     (...) LOL!!! Oh man, those commercials were the BEST! --Todd (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Lunar Rover (foldable) —Steve Bliss
   In case you didn't see, Axel provided a link to a QuickTime movie record of the unfolding of the LRV during Apollo 15. www.hq.nasa.gov/offi...lrvdep.mov It looks like the LRV was both "in" and "on". Half of the rover's bottom seems to be used as the (...) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: Lunar Rover (foldable) —Steven Vore
   (...) the (...) Ah, no I had missed that somehow. Kudos, Axel. -Steven (URL) (did I manage to get it right that time?) (25 years ago, 17-Feb-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 

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