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Interesting side note : the people who built the Lunokhod moon rover were later called in to help with the Chernobyl cleanup. They had experience with remote-co
by frederikvs 5y ago
Interesting side note : the people who built the Lunokhod moon rover were later called in to help with the Chernobyl cleanup. They had experience with remote-controlled radiation-hardened rovers.
There's an interesting documentary on Curiositystream about the Lunokhod program too.
- sharken 5y agoAs for results in the cleanup of Chernobyl, they did not fare that well. About 10% of the roof was cleared before radioactivity made it impossible to continue. Though that effort probably saved lives, so mission accomplished I'd say. https://spacecentre.co.uk/blog-post/the-moon-rovers-that-helped-clean-up-chernobyl/ https://spacecentre.co.uk/blog-post/the-moon-rovers-that-hel...