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Lecture: Driving the Lunokhod
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Lecture: Driving the Lunokhod

The story of driving the first planetary rover: the crew, the signal delay and the lunar kilometres.

Next date
2 October 2026
Time
15:00
Place
Lecture Hall
Price
from RUB 300
Five military operators in Simferopol drove a machine on the Moon, seeing a delayed picture with no depth perception. The lecture explains how they were selected and trained, why a shift lasted two hours, and how the crew freed the rover from a crater in which it had become stuck.