In November 1970, a Soviet rover the size of a bathtub rolled off the Luna 17 lander and crawled across the Sea of Rains at 100 metres per hour, driven by five men in a bunker near Simferopol who had never seen the Moon and faced a 2.5-second delay between command and the wheels responding
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On 17 November 1970, a Soviet spacecraft called Luna 17 touched down on the western edge of Mare Imbrium, the dark lava plain that Renaissance astronomers named the Sea of Rains. A pair of ramps unfo… [+10858 chars]