View From The Porch: Today In History: Dune buggies on the moon!

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Today In History: Dune buggies on the moon!

Apollo 15 astronauts took the first lunar joyride on this date in 1971. You'd think that a car with a $950,000 window sticker would go faster than 8 mph. (I did like the ingenious duct tape repairs, though...)

3 comments:

Matt G said...: No windshield, no spare tire, no radio, and no air conditioning.

Not even cupholders.

Man, NASA got gyped.; 2:23 PM, July 31, 2007
RobC said...: And some nutcases say it never left earth, no need for duct tape then I say. :-); 4:41 PM, July 31, 2007
Unknown said...: 950K sticker.

Then add the delivery fee on that sucker.

T; 3:14 PM, August 01, 2007