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I'm glad this is today's image. I knew the Soviets sent unmanned missions to the moon, but never knew any details. The Lunokhod 1 was apparently very cool, and seems to have all the basic things you would want in a robot rover. This is another example of where the Russians beat the US in the space race. It took us decades to come up with a similar robot rover. Of course, one of our astronauts at the time could have simply walked up to this thing and kicked it over onto its back, since we had men on the moon when this thing was up there.
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