Crew:
David Scott [3], Commander
Alfred Worden [1], CSM Pilot
James Irwin [1], LM Pilot
Backup Crew:
Richard Gordon, Commander
Vance Brand, CSM Pilot
Harrison Schmitt, LM Pilot
Launch:
Location: John F. Kennedy Space Center
Pad: 39-A
Date: 26 July 1971
Time: 13:34:00 UTC
Flight:
Mission Duration: 12 days, 7 hours, 11 minutes, 53 seconds
EVA#1: 33 minutes
EVA#2: 39 minutes
Lunar Landing:
Location: Hadley Rille/Appenines (Lunar 26.13° N, 3.63° E)
Touchdown: 30 July 1971 22:16:29 UTC
EVA#1: 6 hours, 33 minutes
EVA#2: 7 hours, 12 minutes
EVA#3: 4 hours, 50 minutes
Liftoff: 2 August 1971 17:11:22 UTC
Surface Stay Time: 2 days, 18 hours, 54 minutes, 53 seconds
Landing:
Date: 7 August 1971
Time: 20:45:53 UTC
Recovery:
Location: Pacific Ocean (26° 7' N, 158° 8' W)
Vessel: USS Okinawa (LPH-3)
Landing site: Hadley-Apennine region near Apennine Mountains. Scott and Irwin performed 3 EVAs of 18 hours, 7 minutes. Lunar surface stay time, 66.9 hours. Lunar Rover was used to travel 17 miles. They were in lunar orbit for 145 hours, with 74 orbits. A total of 169 lbs of material was gathered. Worden performed a trans-Earth EVA to retrieve film. Prior to Apollo 13, the lunar landing location was proposed to be Censorinus.
The Command and Service Module (CSM) was named Endeavor, and the Lunar Module (LM) was named Falcon.
The Apollo 15 command module is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH.
Launch was by Saturn V.
Credit: NASA |
David Scott near the Lunar Rover. |
Astronaut Jim Irwin
sets up the first Lunar Roving Vehicle. |
Credit: NASA |
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