Apollo 15
| Mission Insignia | |
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| Mission Statistics | |
| Mission Name: | Apollo 15 |
| Call Sign: | Command module: Endeavour
Lunar module: Falcon |
| Number of Crew Members: | 3 |
| Launch: | July 26, 1971 13:34:00 UTC Kennedy Space Center LC 39A |
| Lunar Landing: | July 30, 1971 22:16:29 UTC
Hyginus Rille |
| Lunar EVA length: | 19.1 hours |
| Time on Lunar Surface: | 2 days 18.9 hours |
| Landing: | August 7, 1971 |
| Duration: | 12 days, 7 hours 12 minutes |
Apollo 15 was the ninth manned mission in the Apollo program and the fourth mission to land on the Moon.
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.
Crew
Mission Parameters (Apollo 16, needs to be changed to 15)
- Mass:
- Launch mass: 2,921,005 kg
- Total spacecraft: 46,782 kg
- CSM mass: 30,354 kg, of which CM was 5840 kg, SM 24,514 kg
- LM mass: 16,428 kg , of which ascent stage was 4971 kg, descent stage 11,457 kg
- Earth orbits: 3 before leaving for Moon, about one on return
- Lunar orbits: 64
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.
| Preceded by : Apollo 14 |
Apollo program | Followed by : Apollo 16 |
