Space.com #China’s Yutu Moon Rover Bites the Lunar Dust 8 August 2016 fborgosano Leave a comment Share: The Yutu rover — the first robot to roll across the moon since the Soviet Union’s Lunokhod 2 rover in the early 1970s — has ceased operations, Chinese officials announced last week. from Space.com ift.tt/2aHjb1a Share: