He spoke with the magazine’s Julie Mianecki. Apollo 15 was the first mission to use the lunar rover, to conduct extensive scientific experiments in space, and to place a satellite in lunar orbit ...

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 Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 and Gene Cernan ...

It wasn’t until May 1961 that Kennedy decided that a moon mission gave the U.S. enough time to catch up to Soviet technology. A photo of Apollo 15. To land a person on the Moon required one of ...

The Apollo 15 mission of 1971, NASA’s fourth trip to the lunar surface, didn’t have the same cultural heft as Apollo 11 or the Hollywood-ready story arc of Apollo 13. Apollo 15, however ...

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 Charlie Duke of Apollo 16 and Gene Cernan ...