Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Boeing Aerospace
- Summary
- This is a spare wheel from a lunar roving vehicle (LRV). The LRV was deployed on the moon during Apollo 15, 16 and 17. The tire is made of a woven mesh of zinc-coated piano wire to which titanium treads were riveted in a chevron pattern. This pattern kept the wheels from sinking into the soft lunar soil. The lunar soil proved harder than expected and the wheel treads left tracks about half an inch deep.
- Transferred to the National Air and Space Museum from the Alabama Space and Rocket Center in 1975.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the Alabama Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Ala.
- Inventory Number
- A19750830000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- SPACECRAFT-Crewed-Parts & Structural Components
- Materials
- Wheel: Zinc coated steel piano wire; titanium treads
- Fender: Epoxy-impregnated fiberglass
- Aluminum
- Steel
- Resin
- Rubber
- Dimensions
- 3-D (Wheel): 24 × 80cm (9 7/16 × 31 1/2 in.)
- 3-D (Fender): 79 × 27 × 45cm (31 1/8 × 10 5/8 × 17 11/16 in.)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- Destination Moon
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19750830000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9349bf603-8a7a-4ea7-bfe0-ed1c3fdad887
