Editing Lunar Roving Vehicle (section)

=== Locations ===
Four flight-ready LRVs were manufactured, as well as several others for testing and training.<ref name="ApolloVehiclesNASA" /> Three were transported to and left on the Moon via the [[Apollo program|Apollo]] 15, 16, and 17 missions (LRV-1 to 3), with the fourth (LRV-4) used for spare parts for the first three following the [[Canceled Apollo missions|cancellation]] of Apollo 18.<ref name="ApolloVehiclesNASA" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-05-06 |title=A Field Guide to American Spacecraft {{!}} LRV #4 |url=http://web.mac.com/jimgerard/AFGAS/pages/rovers/nasmlrv4.html |access-date=2023-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506033624/http://web.mac.com/jimgerard/AFGAS/pages/rovers/nasmlrv4.html |archive-date=6 May 2012 }}</ref>

The rover used on Apollo 15 was left at [[Hadley–Apennine (Moon)|Hadley-Apennine]] ({{coord|26.10|N|3.65|E|globe:moon|name=Apollo 15 Lunar Roving Vehicle at Hadley–Apennine}}). The rover used on Apollo 16 was left at [[Descartes Highlands|Descartes]] ({{coord|8.99|S|15.51|E|globe:moon|name=Apollo 16 Lunar Roving Vehicle at Descartes Highlands}}). The rover used on Apollo 17 was left at [[Taurus-Littrow]] ({{coord|20.16|N|30.76|E|globe:moon|name=Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle at Taurus-Littrow}}) and was seen by the [[Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter]] during passes in 2009 and 2011. In 2020 the State of Washington designated the flown rovers as historic landmarks.<ref name="SoWRoverGW">{{cite web |url=https://www.geekwire.com/2020/resting-places-boeing-built-moon-rovers-win-washington-state-landmark-status/#:~:text=NASA%27s%20Boeing%2Dbuilt%20moon%20rovers%20are%20granted%20Washington%20state%20landmark%20status&text=Three%20hot%20rods%20on%20the,vote%20by%20a%20state%20commission. |title=NASA's Boeing-built moon rovers are granted Washington state landmark status |publisher=[[GeekWire]] |date=24 October 2020 |access-date=12 May 2021}}</ref><ref name="SoWRoverLandmark">{{cite web |url=https://wisaard.dahp.wa.gov/Search/1162/Detail/6036 |title=Washington Heritage Register |publisher=[[State of Washington]] |date=23 October 2020 |access-date=12 May 2021}}</ref>

Since only the upper stages of the lunar excursion modules could return to lunar orbit from the surface, the vehicles, along with the lower stages were abandoned. As a result, the only lunar rovers on display are LRV-4, test vehicles, trainers, and mock-ups.<ref name="ApolloVehiclesNASA" />
* Lunar Roving Vehicle 4 (LRV-4)[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lunar_Roving_Vehicle_4_at_the_Kennedy_Space_Center_Visitor_Complex] is on display at the [[Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex]] in [[Cape Canaveral, Florida]].
* The Engineering Mockup [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lunar_Roving_Vehicle_at_The_Museum_of_Flight], intended to design and integrate subsystems,<ref name="ApolloVehiclesNASA" /> is on display at the [[Museum of Flight]] in [[Seattle, Washington]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-05-06 |title=A Field Guide to American Spacecraft {{!}} LRV |url=http://web.mac.com/jimgerard/AFGAS/pages/rovers/moflrv.html |access-date=2023-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506030945/http://web.mac.com/jimgerard/AFGAS/pages/rovers/moflrv.html |archive-date=6 May 2012 }}</ref>
* The Qualification Test Unit [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lunar_Roving_Vehicle_at_the_National_Air_and_Space_Museum], designed to study integration of all LRV subsystems,<ref name="ApolloVehiclesNASA" /> is on display at the [[National Air and Space Museum]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-05-06 |title=A Field Guide to American Spacecraft {{!}} LRV |url=http://web.mac.com/jimgerard/AFGAS/pages/rovers/nasmlrv.html |access-date=2023-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506033621/http://web.mac.com/jimgerard/AFGAS/pages/rovers/nasmlrv.html |archive-date=6 May 2012 }}</ref> 
* The Vibration Test Unit [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lunar_Roving_Vehicle_at_the_U.S._Space_%26_Rocket_Center], intended to study durability and handling of launch stresses,<ref name="ApolloVehiclesNASA" /> is on display in the Davidson Saturn V Center at the [[U.S. Space & Rocket Center]] in [[Huntsville, Alabama]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-05-06 |title=A Field Guide to American Spacecraft {{!}} LRV |url=http://web.mac.com/jimgerard/AFGAS/pages/rovers/ussrclrv2.html |access-date=2023-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506031000/http://web.mac.com/jimgerard/AFGAS/pages/rovers/ussrclrv2.html |archive-date=6 May 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Lunar Roving Vehicle, Vibration Test Unit {{!}} National Air and Space Museum |url=https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/lunar-roving-vehicle-vibration-test-unit/nasm_A19750837000 |access-date=2023-05-24 |website=airandspace.si.edu |language=en}}</ref>
* The 1-gravity trainer [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lunar_Roving_Vehicle_at_Space_Center_Houston] is on display at the [[Johnson Space Center]] in [[Houston, Texas]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-05-06 |title=A Field Guide to American Spacecraft {{!}} LRV |url=http://web.mac.com/jimgerard/AFGAS/pages/rovers/schlrv.html |access-date=2023-05-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120506030955/http://web.mac.com/jimgerard/AFGAS/pages/rovers/schlrv.html |archive-date=6 May 2012 }}</ref>

As mentioned before, additional test units were built, like a static model, two 1/6 gravity models, a mass model.<ref name="ApolloVehiclesNASA" /><gallery mode="packed" caption="Lunar Roving Vehicles, test vehicles and trainers">
File:Apollo 15- Follow the Tracks (6816337786).jpg|[[Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter|LRO]] image of [[Apollo 15]] site, '''LRV-1''' is near the right edge
File:Apollo 16 LS.png|[[Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter|LRO]] image of [[Apollo 16]] site, '''LRV-2''' is near the right edge
File:Apollo 17 landing site, labeled.jpg|[[Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter|LRO]] image of [[Apollo 17]] site, '''LRV-3''' is in the lower right
File:Lunar Roving Vehicle no. 4, Boeing, 1971 - Kennedy Space Center - Cape Canaveral, Florida - DSC02871.jpg|'''LRV-4''', [[Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex|KSC Visitors Complex]]
File:Space Center Houston March 2022 10 (Lunar Roving Vehicle trainer).jpg|'''LRV''' '''1-gravity trainer''', [[Space Center Houston]]
File:Seattle (9287877759).jpg|'''LRV''' '''engineering mockup''', [[Museum of Flight]]
File:MSFC 76545 on display.JPG|'''LRV''' '''Vibration Test Unit''', [[U.S. Space & Rocket Center]]
File:Lunar Roving Vehicle at SNASM.jpg|'''LRV''' '''Qualification Test Unit''', [[National Air and Space Museum]]</gallery>
[[Replica]]s of rovers are on display at the [[Johnson Space Center]] in [[Houston, Texas]], the [[Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex]] in [[Cape Canaveral, Florida]], the [[National Museum of Naval Aviation]] in [[Pensacola, Florida]], the [[Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum]] in [[McMinnville, Oregon]], the [[Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center]] in [[Hutchinson, Kansas]], and the [[Omega Museum]] in [[Biel, Switzerland]].<ref name="fieldguide">{{cite web |title=Lunar Roving Vehicles |url=http://web.mac.com/jimgerard/AFGAS/pages/rovers/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110808161124/http://web.mac.com/jimgerard/AFGAS/pages/rovers/index.html |archive-date=8 August 2011 |access-date=24 August 2009 |work=Field Guide to American Spacecraft}}</ref> A replica on loan from the Smithsonian Institution is on display at the [[Mission: Space]] attraction at [[Epcot]] at the [[Walt Disney World Resort]] near [[Orlando, Florida]].<ref name="fieldguide" /><ref name="spinoff 2003">{{cite news |url=http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff2003/ch_2.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031022174556/http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/spinoff2003/ch_2.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2003-10-22 |title=Blast-Off on Mission: SPACE |date=2003 |work=Science and Technical Information, Spinoff |publisher=NASA |access-date=24 August 2009}}</ref>