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New documentary on Soviet era Lunokhod robotic moon rovers on ABC iview

If you have a fascination with the Cold War between the former Soviet Union and the United States of America which led to the race to the Moon, you may be interested in the documentary ‘Tank on the Moon’ which is now available for watching via the ABC’s iview website. The program can be watched free for the next 12 days.

Fascination recollection of the ‘Lunokhod’ program, the story of the secret remote robots Russia (should really say Soviet Union) built and operated on the Moon’s surface more than three decades ago (text in italics from iview).

The real highlight of the documentary for me that it included a lot of original film footage which I had never seen before, plus seeing in action the various prototypes which the Soviets developed (including a walking one) before they settled on the final design.

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