How did two astronauts?

Question

in space suits with limited mobility get the lunar rover, an electric car, even though only a 1/4 of its weight out of the lunar module on apollo 17? and where was it located... I cant see where it was on any of the plans of the LM descent stage

Answer 1

The rover was folded up and stored in one of the empty bays of the luanr module descent stage. It was deployed by pulling a series of lanywards, which operated a series of hinges and sprung joints to deploy it onto the surface.

If you go here:

http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/a15.html

and scroll down to 'Video and Movie Clips', click that link and then scroll down to 'Deploying the lunar rover, you will find a selection of video clips of the astronauts deploying the rover on Apollo 15. There is also a timelapse video of the entire process, which was time consuming.

Also, here:

http://history.nasa.gov/alsj/LRVDeploy3D.mov

is a CGI visula of the deployment process.

Answer 2

There are diagrams, pictures and even videos. I'll post sources shortly.

OK, the first source is a time lapse video of the astronauts deploying the rover. The second is a demonstration deployment on Earth. They are QuickTIme videos so you will need QuickTime to view them. They may take several minutes to load. Longer if you are using dialup.

The third and fourth are pictures of the rover being loaded onto the LM before launch.

And the last source is a picture of they typical person who thinks the Apollo landings were fake.

Answer 3

The last three lunar modules were upgrades capable of carrying more to the lunar surface. The rover folded up and was attached to the decent stage. One pull of a lanyard and it unfolded like an origami flower. That was a multimillion dollar golf cart sized car that was a marvel of design any effective for the job it was designed to do. They took the astonauts many miles from their base.

Answer 4

Those lunar modules are not mass produced. Pretty much each vehicle is a custom made job. Any plans you may have seen were generic in nature and probably described a typical layout.

There was space made for the rover. A ramp was laid down and the astronauts simply drove it down to the surface. (by the way, the moon's gravity is such that thing weigh about 1/6 of what the would on Earth)

Answer 5

It was all faked, of course.

Amazingly, the hundreds of Ph.D.s and engineering geniuses at places like the JPL and NASA didn't realize that high school drop out conspiracy theorists living in house trailers would outwit them by recognizing that moving a tiny car to the moon was fundamentally impossible.
Go figure, but those eggheads never realized how easily their plot would be penetrated!