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Originally Posted by HoHound
How did they get that big, heavy dune buggy on that little tiny spacecraft? There was barely enough room for 3 astronauts.
It wasn't an internal combustion engine. No oxygen on moon. Was it battery powered? Do you really think that space craft would fly with a heavy ass dune buggy with heavy ass batteries on it? Who stood behind and video taped the spacecraft lifting off from the moon? He even zoomed in an out. Did they leave someone behind? No way a remote camera with a 4 second delay from Earth got such a perfect video of the capsule leaving the moon. Get real.
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if you say so
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_...ss_and_payload
Mass and payload
The Lunar Roving Vehicles have a
mass of 460 pounds (210 kg), and were designed to hold an additional
payload of 510 pounds (230 kg).
[18] This resulted in weights in the approximately one-sixth
g on the lunar surface of 77 pounds-force (35 kgf) empty (
curb weight) and 160 pounds-force (73 kgf) fully loaded (
gross vehicle weight). The vehicle frame is 10 feet (3.0 m) long with a wheelbase of 7.5 feet (2.3 m). The height of the vehicles is 3.6 feet (1.1 m).
The frame is made of 2219 aluminium alloy tubing welded assemblies and consisted of a three-part chassis that was hinged in the center so it could be folded up and hung in the Lunar Module Quadrant 1 bay, which was kept open to space by omission of the outer skin panel. They have two side-by-side foldable seats made of tubular
aluminium with nylon webbing and aluminum floor panels. An armrest was mounted between the seats, and each seat had adjustable footrests and a
Velcro-fastened seat belt. A large mesh dish antenna was mounted on a mast on the front center of the rover. The suspension consists of a double horizontal wishbone with upper and lower
torsion bars and a damper unit between the chassis and upper wishbone. Fully loaded, the LRV has a ground clearance of 14 inches (36 cm).