50 anni dai primati della missione Apollo 15
Video from the channel AsiTV about Apollo 15, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 2:59. Language: Italian. Video type: Documentary.
Piece from Italian Space Agency television marking the 50th anniversary of Apollo 15, the fourth mission to land astronauts on the lunar surface.
The Saturn V lifted off on July 26, 1971 from the Kennedy Space Center, 187 milliseconds late. Alfred Worden piloted the command module Endeavour, while David Scott and James Irwin landed on July 30 with the module Falcon in the Hadley Rille area and logged 18 h 37 min across three moonwalks.
The video highlights the debut of the electric lunar rover, with which they covered about 28 km and collected 77 kg of rocks; the hammer-and-feather experiment; the release of the PFS-1 satellite; Worden's spacewalk in deep space; and the splashdown in the Pacific on August 7, 1971.