It never saw space travel, but it was an important piece of history.
“It is a shame that it couldn’t be saved for posterity,” the operator of a space memorabilia website tells Motherboard.
The junked prototype had been designed, built, and tested for NASA’s Apollo missions in 1965 and 1966, Motherboard reports. It weighed more than 8,000 pounds and was 21-feet long and 15-feet wide. Apollo-era lunar rovers are rare—only a few were ever made, and three of them are still stuck on the moon—and NASA documents reveal prototypes often went missing. According to the documents, the junked prototype “represented an important step in the design and engineering of the final rovers utilized during the Apollo program.” Motherboard says it was “priceless.”
Attention iotwer’s:
BigFur will not be posting tomorrow.
He was stricken this evening with the 14th inning KCR sacrifice flu…
It was a prolonged illness, I believe 5 hours, 9 minutes.
Last I heard he was headed to Walmart for analgesics after mailing a parcel at the Post Office.
We all wish him a speedy recovery. 🙂
They test drove some of those early rovers in that big Arizona meteor crater.
Story kind of reminds me of Big Daddy Ed Roth’s Orbitron being found outside that Mexican sex shop:
http://i223.photobucket.com/albums/dd151/Roth_Orbitron/ORBITRON024.jpg
Another story that I learned about right here.
Digger, Davey and Daddy and a Rat Fink drove that vehicle to the Mexican sex shop and left it there. If you didn’t grow up in the mid 60’s you probably wouldn’t know who Digger, Davey and Daddy were, rat finks maybe. They were the epitome of cool to teenage boys back then, believe me. I could draw some pretty mean looking cars back then which got me into trouble at school because they were more interesting than school was. And just what are you doodling there Geoff, pay attention!
When I was in junior high back then the boys had me draw the cars and finks for them ’cause I could draw. lol