Where is the moon buggy now

It marked the beginning of a new technology and represented an experiment to overcome many new and challenging problems for which there was no precedent in terrestrial vehicle design and operations. First, the LRV must be folded up into a very small package in order to fit within the tight, pie-shaped confines of Quad 1 of the lunar module which transported it to the Moon.

After landing, the LRV must unfold itself from its stowed configuration and deploy itself to the lunar surface in its operational configuration, all with minimum assistance from the astronauts. The lack of an atmosphere on the Moon, the extremes of surface temperature, the very small gravity, and many unknowns associated with the lunar soil and topography impose requirements on the LRV which had no counterpart in Earth vehicles and for which no terrestrial experience existed.

Three flight vehicles had been built, plus seven test and training units, spare components, and related equipment.

The LRV was ten feet, two inches cm long ; had a six-foot cm tread width; was Those guys were my heroes. It was mere happenstance that my father worked on the moon buggy on Apollo His father worked there until he retired in Eager to make his own mark in the world, Steven Barber graduated from Western Kentucky University in with a bachelor of arts degree in television production and took off for Los Angeles with big dreams, he said. Between those gigs and his jobs on cruises, Barber got by, but he wasn't getting far.

One morning in , it all crashed in on him when he woke up in a Las Vegas hotel room, stumbled over to the mirror to see a bloated body and battered face. I was overweight and had gotten in a fistfight the night before," Barber said.

He said the first few years in Alcoholics Anonymous were onerous and, "Every day I wanted to drink. I thought my life was over. I'd lost the woman I was going to marry and I was barely making a living. But amid his struggle, he met another recovering alcoholic who would push him on to his current path: Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin. Aldrin, who has talked openly in the media about his struggles with alcohol, had been at some of the same AA meetings that Barber said he'd attended.

Shortly after their meeting, Barber said he asked the former astronaut whether he could come to Aldrin's home and interview him. Aldrin said yes. He was impressed that I had all that information and that I knew all about the moon missions. Barber asked Aldrin, " 'What's that? NASA reimbursed employees 7 cents per mile for on-the-job travel, so Aldrin put in for the , roundtrip miles to the moon and they sent him a check, Barber said, laughing.

I was pretty beat up. I'd lost my girl. I'd lost my job. I was overweight. I was really bad," Barber said. In , Barber started Vanilla Fire Productions.

His first documentary film, "Unbeaten," was about 32 paraplegic people who wheeled in their chairs across Alaska, from Fairbanks to Anchorage. The film is streaming on Amazon Prime. It was in filmmaking that Barber learned how to raise money for his projects and get big names to chip in. By , with half-a-dozen documentary films under his belt and the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11's moon mission approaching, Barber pitched an idea to Aldrin: Do a documentary film about the July 16, , first manned-moon landing.

Barber said Aldrin was in, but then had to pull out of the project for legal reasons. I am going to do the 12 moon walkers. The Swigert monuments were both made by the Lundeen brothers and sat at the locations for about 25 years, Barber said.

But there were no other statues commemorating any other astronauts. The trees symbolize the 12 manned-missions to the moon, a spokesperson for the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex said. Barber's next call was to sculptor George Lundeen. Lundeen, his brother Mark and sculptor Bainer agreed to do an Apollo 11 monument, if Barber could get funding for it.

Barber was at a loss as to where he'd get the money until he heard a commercial for Rocket Mortgage. A large model was built, depicting the planned landing area for Apollo Meant to be used for video feedback for the landing simulator, the model was also used as a low-fidelity stand-in shown on the video screen of the lunar rover simulator seen in the previous photo.

The model was mounted to the ceiling of a large room, and computer-controlled cameras moved along its surface, mimicking the moves made by the simulators.

Dave Scott practices with the drill at Cape Canaveral, with a rover simulator in the background. The rover was designed to fold up into a small package to be stored for the trip to the moon. David Scott assists during a rover fit check on April 1, The rover is in its folded configuration, being raised into position on the lunar module.

This view of Earth was photographed by the Apollo 15 crewmen as they sped toward the fourth lunar landing, after lifting off from Earth on July 26, The spacecraft was 25, to 30, nautical miles from Earth when this photo was made.

The lunar-module pilot, James Irwin, is seen standing on the moon behind the rover, parked beside the lunar module named, "Falcon. Hanging just in front of his right hand is a traverse map—an overhead photo of the landing site.

The astronaut James Irwin holds the rover to keep it from from sliding downhill during the second Apollo 15 lunar surface extravehicular activity on August 1, Apparently, both of the rover's rear wheels were off the ground. The rover was parked facing downhill on a todegree slope.

Commander Scott took this photograph as he was performing other tasks while Irwin held the rover. In the foreground, a lunar rake lies atop a mound. After deploying apparatus for several lunar surface experiments, James Irwin captured this image of the rover and distant lunar module, with the mountains of the Swann Range in the background. The shadow of the lunar module is in the foreground.