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.

In this official NASA photo, the Apollo 15 emblem plays background to, from left, David R. Scott, commander; Alfred M. Worden, command model pilot; and James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, who make ...

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.

Apollo 15 returned to Earth on Aug. 7, 1971, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. CURIOSITY: NASA Mars Exploration Rover Curiosity landed at Gale Crater on Aug. 6, 2012, and is still in operation!

Cutting 15 and 19, along with closing down Apollo operations in mid-1972 and terminating Saturn V after the Skylab A launch in late 1972, would, Paine explained, produce "substantial saving over ...

WASHINGTON - JULY 29: Al Worden promotes his book "Falling To Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut's ... More Journey To The Moon" at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on July 29, 2011 in ...

Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon alone in 1971 while his two crewmates test-drove the first lunar rover, died Wednesday at age 88.