For me, the thing I liked the most was that we weren't content just to go there and walk around. No, we had to
drive. So we built a folding car for the astronauts to take with them. Genius!
That is just so quintessentially American. We love our cars and by god we will take them everywhere.
Strangely it was actually von Braun's idea for the moon rover vehicle...
And bizarrely enough if it was not for the Lunar Rover the Apollo 15 crew especially , we would not have found the "Genesis rock" most important clue to the Moon's formation, but Apollo 17 did some amazing geological field work (Cernan, Evans, Schmitt ) thanks to the actual "roving" capability of the "Rover".
^^^ "Moon machines" documentary; if you don't own it is worth buying, this is terrific episode how the amazing "Peeps" at GM devised the means to pack a lunar rover on the cramp remaining quarter bay of the decent stage of the LEM.
My old man used to work at Marshal Spaceflight Centre in Huntsville Alabama, but left before the main Apollo launches, but then was later hired to design the sets for a famous space movie. Unfortunately after he died the conspiracy nit-wits would use his "work" and experience to say the moon landings were faked with Kubrick (which of course is beyond absurd.).
I did materials science research and conservation research on the nation's collection of space suits at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum (in the early 90's ). [Part of a research fellowship.]. I was born after 1969.
But been a space "Addict" ever since.
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* (Commander David Scott and lunar module Pilot James Irwin, who used the first lunar rover to make three exploratory trips away from their landing site at the base of the Apennine Mountains, near Hadley Rille. )
Apollo 15 operations on the Lunar surface - Wikipedia
Genesis Rock - Wikipedia
^^^ Gensesis rock.