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Apollo 15
Command and Service Module: Endeavour
Lunar Module: Falcon
Crew:
David R Scott, commander
Alfred M Worden, command module pilot
James B Irwin, lunar module pilot
Mission Details:
Apollo-15 (31)
Pad 39 (9)
Saturn-V AS-510
High Bay 3
MLP 3
Firing Room 1
Launched: 26 July 1971 13:34:00 UT (09:34:00 EDT)
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
Landing Site: Hadley Rille/Apennines (26.13 N, 3.63E)
Landed on Moon: 30 July 1971 22:16:29 UT (18:16:29 EDT)
EVA duration: total 18 hr. 35 min. [3 EVAs]
Lunar Surface Traversed: 27.9 kilometres
Moon Rocks Collected: 76.8 kilograms
LM Departed Moon: 2 August 1971 17:11:22 UT (13:11:22EDT)
Time on Lunar Surface (total): 66 hr. 54 min. 53 sec
Returned to Earth: 7 August 1971 splashdown 20:45:53 UT (16:45:53 EDT)
Mission Duration: 295 hr. 11 min. 53 sec
Retrieval site: Pacific Ocean 26° 7' N, 18° 8' W
Retrieval ship: USS Okinawa
Payload:
Apollo 15 Endeavor (CM-112) and Falcon (LM-10)
Flags carried on this mission and returned to Earth included 25 United States flags, state and territories flags, and flags of all the United Nations members, each 10 cm x 15 cm
Orbits:
Duration: 12 Days, 17 hours, 12 min, seconds
Lunar Location: Hadley-Apennine
Lunar Coordinates: 26.08 degrees North, 3.66 degrees East
Splashdown:
7 August 1971
Mission Highlights:
Landing site: Hadley-Apennine region near Apennine Mountains. 3 EVAs. Worden performed 38 minutes EVA on way back to Earth. First to carry orbital sensors in service module of CSM. ALSEP deployed. Scientific payload landed on Moon doubled. Improved spacesuits gave increased mobility and staytime. Lunar surface staytime, 66.9 hours. First mission with a lunar roving vehicle (LRV) that could transport two astronauts. The LRV could also carry tools, scientific equipment, communications gear, and lunar samples. It was an electric-powered, 4-wheel drive car & traversed a total of 27.9 km. In lunar orbit 145 hours, with 74 orbits. Small sub-satellite left in lunar orbit for first time. 6.6 kgs of material collected. During Earth re-entry and descent, one of the 3 parachutes failed to open fully. As a result, descent velocity was 4.5 km/h faster than planned
Below: a view of a portion of a "relatively fresh" crater as photographed by the Apollo 15 crew (Source)
