However, Apollo 12 almost became a disaster ... to help send the crew back to Earth. On the moon’s surface, the crew dealt with a faulty lunar rover, a broken fender, and a snapped cable snaring ...

This mission featured the longest stay yet on the lunar surface, three moonwalks and the first use of a "moon buggy," or lunar rover ... as backups for the Apollo 12 mission.

True story: when I was a little kid and was at an observatory looking at the Moon through ... images of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. The Apollo 17 lunar rover is indeed visible, as ...

Built by Boeing, the rover promised to dramatically expand the range of the astronauts’ field expeditions. After the precision landings of Apollo 12 and 14 ... I got the Moon in my window.

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface ...

All 12 were Americans ... 22 hours on the surface during the final moon Apollo 17 landing in 1972, even spending time driving around on the lunar rover. The picture of Aldrin staring at the ...

Just like it happened with the Apollo program ... Because the rover is designed to travel at speeds of 12 mph (20 kph) over the Moon’s very uneven terrain, normal wheels would not have worked.

A Tokyo company aimed for the moon with its ... on the lunar surface: 12 men over six landings. Sunday marked the 50th anniversary of astronauts' last lunar landing, by Apollo 17's Eugene Cernan ...