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Let's talk about the first type of vehicle (rover), which, according to the NASA was used in the expedition astronauts of Apollo 15 (David Scott, Alfred Worden, James Irwin), the Apollo 16 and Apollo 17 to the Moon to travel around the lunar surface. < br />



In the picture in the header - David Scott on the lunar vehicle (photo made Irwin). Car wheels have a vertical stripe across the diameter of the disc. USA flag on the rear panel is not visible. The front wheel does not leave marks on the lunar soil - regolith though perfectly visible traces of shoes suits (ie, the rover did not come out of nowhere, it was placed on the set of a crane).
But he, James Irwin at the "Lunar Rover" on the Moon. Shields have a brown color, and the front of the panel applied the US flag (then disappeared somewhere) around on regolith abundant traces of the knurled wheel type:



But we have another cheerful picture - "Lunar Rover» № 1 on Boeing's plant in Kent, Washington, before the shipment to the Kennedy Space Center:



Emphasis is placed on obvious differences from the device that supposedly traveled to the moon - he guards wheels white, the other umbrella antenna, no stripes on the wheels and so on. Well, the antenna can be replaced at the last moment to a more efficient, but who might need to repaint wheels shields at the ready device? What for? Why was it necessary to paint stripes on the wheels?
But the most interesting part of the story with the lunar rover - is the question of how it actually managed to bring to the moon. In the place of his honesty Apollo could shove and where the masses have a reserve - for the rover, to put it mildly, difficult, and in the descent capsule on the account literally every kilogram?
Well - wheels and seats for compactness they allegedly have laid down:



Although a compact konsruktsii still in doubt. That shocked the engineers - trying suburb once the rover to the descent module, and does not go nifiga:



That is particularly obvious that this crap strapped something like ropes, did not want to wake up in place:



But the most important thing is this: the lunar module and the orbital module fit into the overall aerodynamic fairing of the launch vehicle, having a cylindrical and conical shape. Therefore, fasten the module rover flat platform outside - looks like sheer stupidity and waste of volume of the fairing.



By the way, I nowhere and could not find any pictures of the lunar rover module with fixed or at least the schematic drawing - where, where they LM it was fixed. Only found here such picture:



You can clearly see that this photo really can not see anything - except inside the house stacked wheels so the ropes that tied the rover to a certain frame.
Well, here is a primitive drawing:



That also does not provide information about the mounting location as the lunar module without rover looks like this:



It is somehow not visible space for mounting the rover - do not forget that everything has to fit into the rocket fairing, and even alignment lander can not knock down.
Where did reserve the masses - it's even more ridiculous question, because all aware of the fact that the American engineers in order to save weight the lunar module were forced to use extremely dangerous oxygen atmosphere (it avoids the pressure inside the lunar module in 1/4 of the normal atmospheric respectively cabin walls are made of thick metal plate as the tin).
Official mass of lunar rover - 211 kg. Do you really think that the lunar module was a reserve masses?
PS. find in this photo from the wheels of the rover tracks:



Here's another - it's the same mission of Apollo 15, and where it should be?



Well, that's my favorite, most epic photo:



We must assume that the rover astronoty brought here in his arms - as wheel tracks around at all is not present.
Echo-heh ... a Hollywood Hollywood ...



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