In 1970, during the Luna 17 mission, the Soviet space program landed the first ever remote-controlled vehicle on the moon. Lunokhod 1 spent eleven months taking pictures of the moon's surface, and sent back about 20,000 images. It stopped communicating with the earth in 1971. Fast-forward 40 years, and read about how a new use has been found for Lunokhod 1 at the blog Starts With A Bang! Link
So we'll go no more a-roving, so long into the night, thought the heart be still as loving, and the Moon be still as bright.
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And I'll beeeeeeeee the lunar rover, no never, no more...
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