Soviet Rover Lunokhod 1 Lands on the Moon.

The Lunokhod 1 remote-controlled lunar exploration vehicle was carried to the Moon aboard the Luna 17 spacecraft. Luna 17 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, near Tyuratam (now in Kazakhstan), by a Proton booster at thirteen hours, forty-four minutes, Greenwich mean time, on November 10, 1970. The 5,700-kilogram Luna 17 spacecraft was placed initially in a temporary 192-by-237-kilometer Earth parking orbit. Prior to completing the first orbit, the Proton’s fourth stage injected the Luna 17/Lunokhod 1 spacecraft into a translunar trajectory.