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 ...

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.

Reaction to the Apollo 15 moon landing from astronaut's mom, Marion Scott of La Jolla, published in The San Diego Union, July 31, 1971, page A-2. The San Diego Union.

This radar image shows the region where Apollo 15 landed in 1971. To find the landing site, follow the Hadley Rille (the snake-like line) down from the Hadley C crater (the nearby dent); the ...

Apollo 15 became the first of three extended missions, known as J missions, and the landing site was moved to Hadley Rille, originally planned for Apollo 19. Apollo 17 would be the program’s ...

The Apollo 11, 14, 15, 16, and 17 landing sites were photographed between July 11 and 15. The Apollo 12 landing site will be imaged during upcoming orbits. The Apollo 14 landing site as seen by ...

The Apollo 15 crew (from left: James B. Irwin, David R. Scott, Alfred M. Worden) was the first to take a Lunar Roving Vehicle to the Moon. Here, the crew poses with mockups of a lunar rover and ...

These records were taken on the Apollo 15 mission, the fourth mission to land men on the moon in 1971, The Smithsonian reported. The primary purpose of this trip was to observe the moon's surface ...

As the fourth lunar landing, Apollo 15 is often overlooked in the blur of the latter Apollo missions and today it is primarily remembered as the debut of the Lunar Roving Vehicle – the “dune ...

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 ...