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This was the first vehicle to be landed on a space object. On November 10, 1970, it was landed on the moon. It navigated, controlled by a driver on earth, for 9 months, sent back 22,000 pictures and conducted over 500 scientific experiments. A second was later landed also. It would be more than 20 years later that the United States developed and landed a rover vehicle on Mars. Lunokhod in Russian means “moon walker.” After the collapse of the Soviet Union, some of the Russian engineers who developed Lunokhod helped the U. S. scientists develop the Moon Rover.
