Apollo 15 was the only spaceflight for each of these astronauts. Apollo 15 astronaut Jim Irwin works in the Hadley-Apennine region of the moon during his mission in 1971. (Image credit: NASA) ...

NASA's Apollo 15 mission launched July 26, 1971, and marked the debut of the "moon buggy" as well as the three moonwalks and the longest stay yet on the moon's surface.

Apollo 15 marked a more ambitious phase of the US Moon program. Where Apollo 11 through 14 were concerned with reaching the Moon and learning more about how to make precision landings, Apollo 15 ...

For fans of space, space exploration and good old American can-do spirit and guile, the new NASA-approved Apollo 15 commemorative watch from artisan watchmaker, Xeric, will fit the bill quite nicely.

This helped start an ‘AstroVette’ tradition that carried over to later NASA crews, including the Apollo 15 mission. The Apollo 15 AstroVettes were finished in red, white and blue, with each ...

On July 26, 1971, NASA launched Apollo 15, the fourth successful mission to touch down on the moon. The Saturn V rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center at 9:34 a.m.

Practice makes (mostly) perfect. Apollo’s science training coordinator, William Phinney, wrote in a NASA field training book that Apollo 15’s surface science package weighed a whopping 1,200 ...

Apollo 15 was the fourth American space mission to land men on the moon. On the historic 40th anniversary, we celebrate the often-overlooked voyage. See the full slideshow at LIFE.com. NASA's ...

The “Salute to the Flag” photograph from the Apollo 15 mission has the distinctive feature of presenting a perfect composition featuring a fabulous “Salute to the American Flag” ritual in an almost ..

A new exhibit at Manhattan's Intrepid Museum, "Apollo: When We Went to the Moon," sends visitors into space with more than 100 rare relics linked to NASA's historic 1969 lunar mission.

If Apollo 13 left you starstruck, these 15 space thrillers deliver cosmic drama, heart, and zero-gravity excitement.

The Apollo 15 lunar rover vehicle (LRV) was designed to fold into the lunar module, ... A 2013 animation, opens new tab posted by NASA shows how the LRV’s hinged and folded into a smaller shape.