Apollo Lunar Rover The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) or lunar rover was a batterypowered fourwheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15 16 and 17) during 1971 and 1972. The rovers were designed with a top speed of about 8 mph (13 km/h) although Eugene Cernan recorded a maximum speed of 11.2 mph (18.0 km/h) giving him the (unofficial) lunar landspeed record. It was popularly known as the moon buggy a play on the phrase dune buggy.The LRV was transported to the Moon on the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) and once unpacked on the surface could carry one or two astronauts their equipment and lunar samples. The three LRVs remain on the Moon to this day…