Apollo 15 (1971), commanded by Dave Scott with Jim Irwin as his lunar module pilot, found the crew caught up in a scandal upon their return to Earth. The pair, along with Command Module Pilot Al ...
Stuart Roosa piloted the command module. Dave Scott, Al Worden and Jim Irwin were the crew of Apollo 15, the first mission to use the four-wheel-drive lunar rover. John Young, Ken Mattingly and ...
Apollo 15 alone cost NASA close to $450 million in ... necessary to squeeze the rover into the compact cargo bay on the lunar module. Now 93, Pavlic is humble about his accomplishments; Swift ...
Mosher: Where is Lunar Module 14? What state was it ... NASA commissioned Grumman Aircraft to build 15 space-worthy lunar modules for its Apollo program. Each one was was labeled Lunar Modules ...
That's the task that faced Peter Adler and Don Eyles of the MIT Instrumentation Lab who were responsible for developing the software for the Apollo Lunar Module ... each of 15 bits length.
The Apollo IX mission test-flew the command module and lunar module together in Earth orbit ... as captured by the Apollo 15 crew. Like the volcano fields on the Hawaiian island Hilo, some ...
They also carried a lunar roving vehicle. Apollo 15 was supposed to use a standard-size module: LM-9. But after Apollo missions 18, 19, and 20 were canceled, NASA was eager to make the most out of ...