On July 26, 1971, at 9:34 am EDT, Apollo 15 lifted off the Pad A of Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center on the first true lunar exploration mission. Using an improved Lunar Module, the ...

Apollo 15 Launch. NASA . Apollo 15 blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, at 9:34 a.m. on July 26, 1971. Commander David R. Scott, ...

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.

Of the 17 Apollo astronauts still alive, Walter Cunningham of Apollo 7, Rusty Schweickart of Apollo 8, Fred Haise of Apollo 13, Al Worden of Apollo 15, Charlie Duke of Apollo 16, Harrison Schmitt ...

Apollo 15 astronauts James B. Irwin, from left, Alfred M. Worden, and David R. Scott, at the Space Center in Houston on Jan. 1971. AP file And, he said, they didn’t always follow the rules.

She remembers how it felt to watch the Apollo 15 launch from the VIP section on Cape Canaveral. “I walked out on the grass to the fence and stand there and watch it, as close as I could get.

Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden helped with the mass launching. Also present: all three children of German-born rocket genius Wernher von Braun, who masterminded the Saturn V. “This was a blast.