We know about the humans who landed on the Moon for the first time. But who was the first one to drive a lunar rover? David Scott and James Irwin, the crew of Apollo 15 are credited with this remarkable achievement.
Apollo 15 was the fourth spacecraft to land on the Moon. It stayed on the Moon for a longer time than the other spacecraft and had a sharper scientific objective. David Scott and James Irwin landed near Hadley Rill. They travelled further from the lunar module with the help of a lunar rover and surveyed the local area. They spent eighteen and a half hours on the surface of the Moon, collecting almost 77 kilograms of surface material. While David and James explored the lunar surface, Alfred Worden, the Command Module Pilot orbited the Moon to collect data.
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