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Ix, .TIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION
MANNEDSPACECRAFT
Houston
CENTE l, Texas
483-5111 November 17_ 1970
RELEASED BY NASA HEADQUARTERS
gravity, was built for Boeing by its major LRV subcontractor_ the Delco
Electronics Division of General Motors Corp.
"This milestone is second in importance only to the final accompliskment
of delivery of the first flight LRV," said S. F. Morea_ LRV project manager
from the Marshall Center_ during brief delivery ceremonies at the GM Defense
Research Laboratories_ Santa Barbara, Calif., where the trainer was built.
Morea_ Astronauts Charles Duke and Robert Parker_ and officials of both
Boeing and Delco Electron:cs were present at the informal ceremony.
The 1-G trainer will be shipped to NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center,
Houston, and arrive there in about a week. The vehicle will be used in a
training program to teach astronauts how to operate the vehicle under many
simulated
situations.
The 2-man trainer is similar in appearance to the operational version
of the lunar roving vehicle, with certain major differences. The biggest
of these are that the trainer weighs about twice what the flight LRV will
weigh, and the trainer is equipped with automobile-type and wire mesh tires.
It is the only operating Fehicle that closely duplicates the operational LRV
in Earth
environment.
A major milestone in the manned lunar roving vehicle (LRV) program was
reached today when a special training vehicle was delivered to the NASA-
Marshall Space Flight Center by the Boeing Co., LRV prime contractor.
The vehicle_ called a "I-G trainer" because it will operate in Earth's
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