Left: James B. Irwin, Lunar Module Pilot
Center: David R. Scott, Commander
Right: Alfred M. Worden, Command Module Pilot
Launched July 26, 1971
Landed August 7, 1971
Apollo 15 had numerous "firsts" and set some records for crewed spaceflight:
1. heaviest payload in a lunar orbit of approximately 107,000 pounds,
2. maximum radial distance traveled on the lunar surface away from the spacecraft of about 17.5 miles (previous high was 2.1 miles on Apollo 14),
3. most lunar surface EVAs (three)
4. longest total of duration for lunar surface EVAs (18 hours, 37 minutes - almost the total time spent in lunar orbit by Apollo 8),
5. longest time in lunar orbit (about 145 hours; only two hours less than the entire Apollo 8 mission),
6. longest crewed lunar mission (295 hours),
7. longest Apollo mission (295 hours - previous high was 244 hours, 36 minutes on Apollo 12),
8. the first satellite placed in lunar orbit by a crewed spacecraft,
9. first deep space and operational EVA.
Landed August 7, 1971
Apollo 15 had numerous "firsts" and set some records for crewed spaceflight:
1. heaviest payload in a lunar orbit of approximately 107,000 pounds,
2. maximum radial distance traveled on the lunar surface away from the spacecraft of about 17.5 miles (previous high was 2.1 miles on Apollo 14),
3. most lunar surface EVAs (three)
4. longest total of duration for lunar surface EVAs (18 hours, 37 minutes - almost the total time spent in lunar orbit by Apollo 8),
5. longest time in lunar orbit (about 145 hours; only two hours less than the entire Apollo 8 mission),
6. longest crewed lunar mission (295 hours),
7. longest Apollo mission (295 hours - previous high was 244 hours, 36 minutes on Apollo 12),
8. the first satellite placed in lunar orbit by a crewed spacecraft,
9. first deep space and operational EVA.
If you know some cool facts about the Apollo flights, tell me at
RamoneRocketeer -at- gmail -dot- com.
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