Hacker Cinema
Tank on the Moon
2007 · Film · documentary · 54 min
Directed by Jean Afanassieff
The incredible story of two small robots sent by the Soviets to the moon. Designed in secrecy by Soviet laboratories in the 1960's, this is one of the greatest technological achievements in the history of the USSR. With former USSR space archives, along with recollections by several of the key participants in the Lunokhod program, the true story of the Russian lunar robots, can finally be told!
1 positive1 neutralfrom 2 commenters
Where to watch
No streaming data for this title.
2 comments on Hacker News
As you're very likely already aware;
Tank on the Moon (2007) is a French documentary film about the development, launch, and operation of the Soviet Moon exploration rovers, Lunokhod 1 and Lunokhod 2 in the period from 1970 to 1973. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_on_the_Moon
on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_0K2-Tf3Ko
A bit of sometimes overlooked history.
It's about time for a larger scale robot base .. good trial run for elsewhere at even greater distances.
If I remember correctly, in this documentary "Tank on the Moon"[1], they said, one of the scientists who worked on the Lunokhod missions consulted with NASA for part of the design of the Mars rover around 1995. Apparently he worked on the wheel design, to help overcome grip and other factors on the Mars terrain. [1] http://science.discovery.com/tv/tank/tank.html