The Apollo 15 Lunar Module (LM) Falcon set down on the Hadley plains (26.132°N, 3.634°E) a mere 2 kilometers from Hadley Rille. The goals: sample the basalts that compose the mare deposit, explore a ...

On July 26, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Apollo 15 mission. Crew for Apollo 15 was Commander David R. Scott, Lunar Module Pilot James B. Irwin and Command Module Pilot Alfred ...

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. The mission was intended for ...

A Feb. 21 Instagram post (direct link, archive link) shows a photo of an astronaut standing on the moon near an American flag, a lunar module and a lunar rover. “How did the moon buggy fit inside the ...

The National Museum of the U.S. Air Force is marking the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 15 mission to the moon with one of that mission’s defining moments: a replica of the first of three lunar rovers ...

What: On April 1, NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., the American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville will host a 40th ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) – Teledyne Brown ...

This print is of NASA Image #AS15-86-11603. Vintage watermark "A KODAK PAPER" is plainly visible. In this vintage oversize photograph from the Apollo 15 mission, Jim Irwin stands beside the Lunar ...

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 ninth ...

Toward the end of their first day outside, Dave Scott captured this dramatic shot of Jim Irwin and the rover, with Mt. Hadley’s summit in the background, 12 miles away. When Apollo 14 landed ...