Where Are NASA's Moon Cars Now?

In September 2011, a NASA spacecraft photographed the Apollo 17 landing site from just 14 miles up and found a car still parked there, exactly where Gene Cernan left it in December 1972. There are three of them on the Moon. This is the story of the Lunar Roving Vehicle: the folding car built in about 17 months, the first drive with no front steering, John Young's "Grand Prix", the broken fender fixed with four maps and duct tape, and the reason the last rover was parked in one exact spot. CHAPTERS 0:00 The car NASA's orbiter found on the Moon 1:54 A car nobody planned for 3:38 The car that folds in half 5:53 First drive: Apollo 15 and the steering that didn't work 8:05 The Apollo 16 "Grand Prix" 9:29 Apollo 17: a broken fender and a roll of duct tape 10:20 The fix made of four maps 11:54 The last parking job 14:07 Where the Moon cars are now SOURCES NASA Apollo Lunar Surface Journal (Apollo 16 Grand Prix): https://nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/s... Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, "Duct Tape Auto Repair on the Moon": https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/ed... Air & Space / Smithsonian, "First Car on the Moon" (2021): https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-sp... Universe Today, "How NASA Filmed Humans Last Leaving the Moon": https://universetoday.com/articles/ho... Space.com, LRO images of Apollo landing sites (2011): https://www.space.com/12835-nasa-apol... Universe Today, LRO view of the Apollo 15 site: https://www.universetoday.com/article... Classic & Sports Car, "Lunar rover: the story of the most expensive car ever": https://www.classicandsportscar.com/n... EE Journal, "The Lunar Roving Vehicle": https://www.eejournal.com/article/the... Wikipedia, Lunar Roving Vehicle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_R... CREDITS Photos and film: NASA (public domain) - Apollo 15, 16 and 17 mission photography, NASA/MSFC and NASA/JSC archives, NASA 16mm and TV footage via the Internet Archive. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University. Stock video: Pexels (pexels.com). Music: The Grey Room / Density & Time (YouTube Audio Library). Some scenes are illustrations made for this video.