Stowed aboard the final three Apollo missions, the “moon buggy” experienced a mishap on the Apollo 17 landing that would have been a disaster if not for the inclusion of a decidedly analog ...

Built by Boeing, they weighed 460 pounds on Earth and 76 pounds on the moon. Intended to reach six miles per hour, they topped out at 11.2 miles per hour during their final usage with Apollo 17.

These are a battery pack, a communications unit, and the unique-to-Apollo-17 Traverse Gravimeter Experiment ... replica of the battery-powered lunar moon buggy. This article may contain affiliate ...