APOLLO 15 FLIGHT TO HADLEY-APENNINE LUNAR ROVER HISTORIC NASA FILM 71252

Video from the channel PeriscopeFilm about Apollo 15, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 14:49. Language: English. Video type: Archive footage.

NASA informational film, from the Aeronautics and Space Report series, presenting the Apollo 15 mission before launch through interviews with its crew: commander Dave Scott, 40, on his third flight after Gemini 8 and Apollo 9; lunar module pilot Jim Irwin, 41, and command module pilot Al Worden, 39. It explains the goal of landing beside Hadley Rille, at the foot of the Apennine mountains, a plain between mountains 11,000 to 15,000 feet high and a canyon about 1.3 km wide. It shows the handling of the lunar Rover with a single hand controller, its instrument and navigation panel, the television camera controlled from the ground, the drill of the heat flow experiment and the scientific instruments of the service module.

It was filmed in 1971, before the liftoff planned for late July from the Kennedy Space Center, and includes the underwater rehearsal of Worden's spacewalk at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.

The 12-day mission planned 67 hours on the Moon with three moonwalks, excursions of up to about 8 km from the lunar module thanks to the Rover, and six days of the command module in lunar orbit. There, a particles-and-fields subsatellite would be released whose tracking was meant to help map the Moon's gravitational field, and on the way back Worden would go outside to retrieve the film from the panoramic and mapping cameras.