but Apollo astronauts also capitalized on the opportunity to test scientific ideas. During the Apollo 15 mission in 1971, astronauts David Scott and James Irwin decided to test a centuries-old ...

Frank Borman, the astronaut on the review committee ... Dave Scott, Al Worden and Jim Irwin were the crew of Apollo 15, the first mission to use the four-wheel-drive lunar rover.

Strange as it may sound, where the astronauts sat (or “sat” – the crew actually stood) in the Apollo Lunar Module may have profoundly impacted the way the experience of walking on the Moon affected ...

In 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface. Today that photo is long gone. But Duke’s visage is heading back to the moon this week ...