We all owe a debt to Alexander Kemurdjian...he was the driving force behind designing the Russian lunar rovers which successfully traversed the moon 30 years before NASA did it on Mars (and I recently learned that he was a consultant on that design as well). Over the weekend I watched a program I'd recorded previously entitled "Tank on the Moon". It was a history of the Russian Lunakhod program. Very fascinating...their achievement seems to have been lost in history to the general public but it was a significant technical achievement.
Craig
(And kudos to India for a successful launch and beginning to their lunar program!)