50 years ago, NASA put a car on the moon

David R Scott was not about to pass by an interesting rock without stopping. It was July 31, 1971, and he and James B Irwin, his fellow Apollo 15 astronaut, were the first people to drive on the moon. After a six-hour inaugural jaunt in the new lunar rover, the two were heading back to their lander, the Falcon, when Scott made an unscheduled pit stop.

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