The top speed was 8 mph. The first rover was used during the Apollo 15 mission, when David Scott andJames Irwin drove it on the moon on July 31, 1971.

第一部探险车在阿波罗15飞船航天飞行期间的7月31日，由大卫·斯科特和詹姆士·欧文在月球上驾驶。

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Two senior U.S.diplomats went to Burma last week to open the dialogue and at a Manila news conference with Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo, Clinton called the mission by Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian Affairs Kurt Campbell and his deputy Scott Marciel "very successful."

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But, for the moment, Scott has one mission in mind as he seeks to prove he is not yesterday's man.

BBC: Return of Mr Dundee

Tom Sharpe, Antarctic geologist and curator of the exhibition Captain Scott, South For Science, argues that Wales fell in love with the mission because of the brilliant propaganda of the Terra Nova's second-in-command, Edward (Teddy) Evans, later Lord Mountevans.

BBC: Scott of Antarctic 'propaganda created Welsh obsession'

Even though the mission ended in failure, with Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen beating Scott's party to the pole by five weeks, Mr Sharpe said it was still one of the biggest scientific success stories of the 20th Century.

BBC: Scott of Antarctic 'propaganda created Welsh obsession'