Apollo 15

{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="right"\n|+Apollo 15\n|-\n!colspan="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FFDEAD"|Mission Insignia\n|-\n|colspan="2" align="center"|\n|-\n!colspan="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FFDEAD"|Mission Statistics\n|-\n|Mission Name:||Apollo 15\n|-\n|Call Sign:||Command module:
Endeavour
Lunar module:
Falcon\n|-\n|Number of
Crew:||3\n|-\n|Launch:||July 26, 1971
13:34:00 UTC
Kennedy Space Center
LC 39A\n|-\n|Lunar Landing:||July 30, 1971
22:16:29 UTC
26° 7' 55.99" N - 3° 38' 1.90" E
Hyginus Rille \n|-\n|Lunar EVA
length:||LM Stand Up: 33 min 7 s
1st: 6 h 32 min 42 s
2nd: 7 h 12 min 14 s
3rd: 4 h 49 min 50 s
Total: 18 h 34 min 46 s\n|-\n|CMP EVA:|| 39 min 7 s\n|-\n|Lunar Surface
Time:||66 h 54 min 53.9 s\n|-\n|Lunar Sample
Mass:|| 77.31 kg\n|-\n|Landing:||August 7, 1971
20:45:53 UTC
26° 7' N - 158° 8' W\n|-\n|Duration:||295 h 11 min 53 s\n|-\n|Number of
Lunar Orbits:||74\n|-\n|Time in
Lunar Orbit:||145 h 12 min 41.68 s\n|-\n|Mass:||CSM 30,370 kg;
LM 16,430 kg\n|-\n!colspan="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FFDEAD"|Crew Picture\n|-\n|colspan="2" align="center"|\n|-\n!colspan="2" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" bgcolor="#FFDEAD"|Apollo 15 Crew\n|}\nApollo 15 was the ninth manned mission in the Apollo program and the fourth mission to land on the Moon.

Table of contents

1 Crew 2 Mission Parameters 2.1 See also 3 Mission Highlights 3.2 Relics 4 External link 4.3 Reference

Crew

\n*David Scott, commander\n*Alfred Worden, command module pilot\n*James Irwin, lunar module pilot The crew members: David Scott, commander; Alfred Worden, command module pilot; and James Irwin, lunar module pilot. It was a J-class mission, featuring the first use of the Lunar Rover. It brought back 76.8 kg of lunar samples. It included four lunar EVA's: 0.5 hours, 6.6 hours, 7.2 hours, and 4.8 hours.

Mission Parameters

\n*Mass:\n**Launch mass: 2,921,005 kg\n**Total spacecraft: 46,782 kg\n***CSM mass: 30,354 kg, of which CM was 5840 kg, SM 24,514 kg\n***LM mass: 16,428 kg, of which ascent stage was 4971 kg, descent stage 11,457 kg\n*Earth orbits: 3 before leaving for Moon, about one on return\n*Lunar orbits: 74

• Perigee: 169.5 km\n*Apogee: 171.3 km\n*Inclination: 29.679° \n*Period: 87.84 min
• Perilune: 107.4 km\n*Apolune: 314.8 km\n*Inclination: 154° \n*Period: 119 min\n*Landing Site: 26.13222° N - 3.63386° E or
  26° 7' 55.99" N - 3° 38' 1.90" E

See also

\n*Splashdown The splashdown point was 26 deg 7 min N, 158 deg, 8 min W, 330 miles north of Honolulu, Hawaii and 9.8 km (6.1 mi) from the recovery ship USS Okinawa.

Mission Highlights

\nThe first of the longer, expedition-style lunar landing missions was also the first to include the lunar rover, a carlike vehicle that extended the astronauts' range. The lunar module Falcon touched down near the sinuous channel known as Hadley Rille. Scott and Irwin rode more than 27.36 kilometers in their rover, and had a free hand in their geological field studies compared to earlier lunar astronauts. They brought back one of the prize trophies of the Apollo program-a sample of ancient lunar crust nicknamed the "Genesis Rock." Apollo 15 also launched a small subsatellite for measuring particles and fields in the lunar vicinity. On the way back to Earth, Worden, who had flown solo on board Endeavor while his crewmates walked on the surface, conducted the first space-walk between Earth and the Moon to retrieve film from the side of the spacecraft.

Relics

The command module is displayed at the United States Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio and the lunar module impacted the Moon on 3 August, 1971 at 26.36 N, 0.25 E.
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Preceded by : Apollo 14

Apollo program

Followed by : Apollo 16

External link

\n*Map of surface activities for Apollo 15\n* Apollo 15 entry in Encyclopedia Astronautica

Reference

\n*NASA NSSDC Master Catalog\n*APOLLO BY THE NUMBERS: A Statistical Reference by Richard W. Orloff (NASA)\n*The Apollo Spacecraft: A Chronology\n*Apollo Program Summary Report\n*Apollo 15 Characteristics - SP-4012 NASA HISTORICAL DATA BOOK Category:Lunar spacecraft\nCategory:Human spaceflights\nCategory:Apollo program\n