* 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission – David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.

MSL mockup compared with the Mars Exploration Rover and Mars Pathfinder | Sojourner rover by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on May 12, 2008

Land Rover is a British car manufacturer with its headquarters in Gaydon, Warwickshire, United Kingdom which specialises in four-wheel-drive vehicles.

During its ownership by Ford, Land Rover was once again associated with Jaguar-the first time the two companies had been under the same umbrella since the British Leyland era.

On 11 June 2007, Ford Motor Company announced its plan to sell Land Rover, along with Jaguar.

BMW and Ford had previously retained ownership of the Rover brand to protect the integrity of the Land Rover brand, with which ' Rover ' might be confused in the US 4x4 market ; the Rover brand was originally used under license by MG Rover until it collapsed in 2005, at which point it was re-acquired by the then Ford Motor Company owned Land Rover Limited.

* 1980: Rover car production ends at Solihull with the transfer of SD1 production to Cowley, Oxford ; Solihull is now exclusively for Land Rover manufacture.

* 1997: Land Rover introduces the Special Edition Discovery XD with AA Yellow paint, subdued wheels, SD type roof racks, and a few other off-road upgrades directly from the factory.

* TMS-SD offers a 1 / 4-scale radio controlled Mars Exploration Rover with wireless video that children ( of all ages ) can operate

Paraffin wax phase change cooling coupled with retractable radiators was used to cool the electronics of the Lunar Rover.

On 11 September 1977, police loaded him in the back of a Land Rover, naked and restrained in manacles, and began the 1100 km drive to Pretoria to take him to a prison with hospital facilities.

Their record label, Stiff Records, went bankrupt soon after the 1987 release of the single " The Irish Rover " ( with The Dubliners ).

Royal Fleet Auxiliary Vessel RFA Gold Rover upon reaching the island with the required medical supplies found no emergency and the islanders in good general health.

Malcolm McDuck is said to have lost his life on December 9, 1564 when the Spanish fleet sunk the " Falcon Rover " along with its entire crew, though this is not true.

The United States tested twenty different sizes and designs during Project Rover and NASA's NERVA program from 1959 through 1972 at the Nevada Test Site, designated Kiwi, Phoebus, NRX / EST, NRX / XE, Pewee, Pewee 2 and the Nuclear Furnace, with progressively higher power densities culminating in the Pewee ( 1970 ) and Pewee 2.

Development of such engines started under the aegis of the Atomic Energy Commission in 1955 as Project Rover, with work on a suitable reactor starting at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Area 25 in the Nevada Test Site.

The NERVA / Rover project was eventually cancelled in 1972 with the general wind-down of NASA in the post-Apollo era.

Until very recently the Italian police ( including the Carabinieri ) operated only Italian-made vehicles, but that changed with the introduction of Land Rover Defenders and Subarus into service.

The number of two-door SUV models increased in the 2010s with the release of the Range Rover Evoque and the Nissan Murano convertible, although both vehicles are unibody.

Rover developed a highly advanced ( for the time ) turbodiesel version of its engine in the mid 1960s to power its experimental ' 129-inch ' heavy duty Land Rover designs.

Land Rover claims IBF combines the virtues of monocoque and ladder-frame – though it makes for a heavy vehicle, compromising performance and agility.

The cast iron Essex V6 is a heavy engine, weighing significantly more than the aluminum alloy Rover V8, for example.

The PG was trained by the Palestinian Fatah and were provided with soviet-made small-arms, as well as armed jeeps and gun-trucks ( Land Rover, Toyota Land Cruiser, GMC, GAZ-66 ) equipped with heavy machine guns, anti-aircraft autocannons and recoilless rifles supplied by the PLO, Syria, and the USSR.

The smallest Land Rover available at the time was a Series IIA 88 inch ( 2235 mm ) wheelbase, which was too heavy.

Land Rover is planning 60, 000-80, 000 units annually which would beat the 1970 record of between 55, 000 and 60, 000.

Voted by the users in India, it beat out rivals such as the Toyota RAV4, Land Rover Freelander and Honda CR-V.

The title theme was re-recorded again to give it a disco beat, the use of the robot ' Rover ' was increased for comic effect, and episodes began to revolve around topical subjects like skateboarding, roller coasters and the environment.

In EuroNCAP crash tests, the Fiat Seicento was only awarded a 1. 5 star rating, and fractionally beat the worst contenders in the history of EuroNCAP, namely the Rover 100 / Rover 600 and the original Chrysler Voyager MPV.

They may even dismiss it from their minds as something that concerns only the `` ecclesiastical Rover Boys '', as someone has dubbed them, who like to go to national and international assemblies, and have expense accounts that permit them to do so.

The 2009 novel Blood's a Rover by James Ellroy takes its title from Housman's poem " Reveille ", and a line from Housman's poem XVI " How Clear, How Lovely Bright ", was used for the title of the last Inspector Morse book The Remorseful Day by Colin Dexter.

In Cambridge Bay, Nunavut | Cambridge Bay, Canada in May 2009, the Mars Institute's Moon-1 HMMWV Rover waits for a C-130 Hercules from the 109th Airlift Squadron to airlift it to Resolute Bay Airport.

Although the brand originates from the original 1947 model, Land Rover as a company has only existed since 1978, prior to this it was a product line of the Rover Company which was subsequently absorbed into the Rover-Triumph division of the British Leyland Motor Corporation ( BL ) following Leyland Motor Corporation ’ s takeover of Rover in 1967.

A UK-based private equity firm, Alchemy Partners, and the India-headquartered Tata Motors and Mahindra and Mahindra expressed interest in purchasing Jaguar and Land Rover from the Ford Motor Company.

* 1975: BL collapses and is nationalised, publication of the Ryder Report recommends that Land Rover be split from Rover and be treated as a separate company within BL and becomes part of the new commercial vehicle division called the Land Rover Leyland Group

Ford acquires the Rover trademark from BMW, who previously licensed its use to MG Rover Group

* 12 June 2007: Announcement from the Ford Motor Company that it plans to sell Land Rover and also Jaguar Cars

* August 2007: India's Tata Motors and Mahindra and Mahindra as well as financial sponsors Cerberus Capital Management, TPG Capital and Apollo Global Management expressed their interest in purchasing Jaguar Cars and Land Rover from the Ford Motor Company.

* 2 June 2008: Tata Motors finalised their purchase of Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford.

* Range Rover Classic — the original Range Rover, produced from 1970 to 1996

** World Scout Moot, a gathering of older Scouts, mainly Rover Scouts, ages 18 – 26 from all over the world

The legendary Irish Rover sets sail from the Cove of Cork, Ireland for New York City.

The highly successful U. S. Project Rover which ran from 1955 through 1972 accumulated over 17 hours of run time.

In January of 1965, the U. S. Rover program purposely placed a Kiwi Reactor ( KIWI-TNT ) on fast excursion to simulate a worst-case scenario of a fall from altitude into the ocean such as might occur in a booster failure after launch.

Early SUVs were descendants from commercial and military vehicles such as the World War II Jeep and Land Rover.