Apollo 15 set several records for crewed spaceflight, including the heaviest payload in a lunar orbit, maximum radial distance traveled on the moon away from the spacecraft, the most lunar surface ...

Apollo 15 Lunar Module Pilot James B. Irwin salutes while standing beside the fourth American flag planted on the surface of the moon, July 30, 1971. The lunar module that took them to the moon's ...

Apollo 15 launched on July 26, 1971, and became the fourth successful mission to touch down on the lunar surface. ... Irwin served as Apollo Lunar Module pilot.

Lunar Module 9, or LM-9, is one of only three remaining Apollo moon landers built for mission use. Originally intended to launch on Apollo 15, LM-9 (pronounced "Lem-Nine") was replaced with a more ...

An official NASA photo shows astronaut Alfred M. Worden, chosen to be the prime crew command module pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar landing mission.

Worden served as the command module pilot on Apollo 15, the first lunar mission to carry scientific instruments in the command module. While orbiting the Moon alone, farther from other people than ...

Just two years after the first men walked on the moon, some astronauts drove a buggy on it. Apollo 15 carried the first astronauts to operate a vehicle on the moon – the Lunar Roving Vehicle ...

In addition to the overhead lunar flyby, the researchers have simulated and subsequently studied the landing of the Apollo 15 Lunar Module and a drive around the landing site aboard the Lunar Rover.

Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot Al Worden has died at age 88, his family confirmed Wednesday. Worden circled the moon alone in 1971 while, below, his two crewmates test-drove the first lunar rover.

Apollo 15 took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on July 26, 1971, with Mission Commander David R. Scott, Command Module Pilot Alfred M. Worden, and Lunar Module Pilot James B. Irwin.

Apollo 16 Lunar Module Pilot Charlie Duke uses a rake to collect small rocks. ... Paine's Option I had cut Apollo 15 and flown all the remaining lunar missions before Skylab A.

William Worden-Penczak, the grandson of NASA pilot Al Worden, has partnered with Lunar Replicas to restore the 1971 Corvette that was leased to his grandfather.