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.

NASA . The Apollo 15 mission featured the first use of a "moon buggy," or lunar roving vehicle (LRV), which traveled 17.5 miles (28 kilometers) over the course of three extravehicular activity ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Al Worden's Apollo 15 portrait (NASA) What group of astronauts was that? We were the fifth group of astronauts selected by NASA. There were 19 of us who went into the program.

Apollo 15 astronauts Jim Irwin, left, ... NASA dispatched the Apollo astronauts to this volcanic field to search for these and other faux moon rocks. Advertisement.

Celebrating one of America’s finest moments, this NASA Apollo 15 watch was designed by master watchmakers, with a large central moon phase function that displays the current phase of the moon ...

Inside, the NASA Apollo 15 watch is just as innovative. In the automatic movement edition, the timepiece runs on a self-winding mechanical “engine” that doesn’t even need a battery.

The NASA Apollo 15 watch was funded in literally minutes when the Kickstarter campaign began earlier this month, but buyers have until Sept. 24 to pledge for the exact model they like best.