High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) or lunar rover was a battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon during the last three missions of the American Apollo program (15, 16, and 17) during 1971 and 72. It was popularly known as the moon buggy, a play on the phrase "dune buggy". The LRV could carry one or two astronauts, their equipment, and lunar samples. The concept of a lunar rover predated Apollo, with a 1950s series in Collier's Weekly magazine by Wernher Von Braun and others, "Man Will Conquer Space Soon!", describing a six week stay on the moon, featuring ten-ton tractor trailers for moving supplies. In the February 1964 issue of Popular Science, Von Braun, then director of NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, discussed the need for a lunar surface vehicle. In anticipation of this as-yet unfunded project, NASA officially changed the name of the lunar lander from Lunar Excursion Module to simply Lunar Module in an effort to make clear that the capability for powered lunar surface mobility ("excursions" away from the lunar lander base) did not yet exist.

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