Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot Al Worden has died at age 88, his family confirmed Wednesday. Worden circled the moon alone in 1971 while, below, his two crewmates test-drove the first lunar rover. A ...

March 19 (UPI) --Former astronaut Al Worden, who piloted the orbiting command module during the Apollo 15 moon landing in 1971, died Wednesday in Texas, NASA said. He was 88. Worden, who began his ...

Alfred M. Worden, the command module pilot on Apollo 15 who holds a world record as the “most isolated human being" for orbiting the moon as his crewmates were on the surface, has died in the Houston ...

A SPICE simulation of Apollo 15's Command and Service Module in orbit around the Moon in 1971. Image: (ESA) Scientists at the European Space Agency are using a powerful new simulator to relive the ...

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VANCOUVER, Wash. — The live television broadcast showed that one of the three parachutes on the Apollo 15 capsule had failed to deploy properly. “Standby for a hard impact,” someone on the aircraft ...

On Aug. 2, 1971, a lunar liftoff was televised for the first time. Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott and James Irwin spent three days on the moon before departing in the lunar module, named "Falcon." ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon alone in 1971 while his two crewmates test-drove the first lunar rover, has died at age 88, his family said Wednesday.