Across the Airless Wilds - The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings
                                
                                
                             
                            
                         
                            
                            
                        But Apollo 11 was but a prelude to what came later: while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin trod a sliver of flat lunar desert smaller than a football field, Apollos 15, 16, and 17 each commanded a mountainous area the size of Manhattan.