Documental - Apolo 15 🚀: En Las Montañas de la Luna

Video from the channel Los Dados de Einstein about Apollo 15, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 29:06. Language: Spanish. Video type: Documentary.

Spanish-dubbed version of a NASA film about the Apollo 15 mission, titled "In the Mountains of the Moon". It combines mission footage with the astronauts' communications and follows the mission's progress from the descent of the Falcon lunar module to splashdown, with particular attention to the scientific work on the surface and in orbit.

Apollo 15 launched on 26 July 1971. The crew consisted of David Scott, commander and veteran of Gemini 8 and Apollo 9; James Irwin, lunar module pilot; and Alfred Worden, pilot of the command module Endeavour, who remained in lunar orbit. Scott and Irwin landed on a plain between the Apennine Mountains and Hadley Rille, an area chosen for its geological interest. The lunar module carried a roving vehicle, the rover, which the astronauts used to travel kilometres to collect samples and set up experiments.

The film reviews the three moonwalks: the visit to the craters at the Apennine front, the setting up of a scientific station with heat-flow probes, and the collection of the so-called Genesis Rock, a fragment of primitive lunar crust. The deepest drill core obtained on the Moon reached about two and a half metres and passed through 58 layers. From orbit, Worden operated mapping and panoramic cameras, a laser altimeter and chemical-analysis experiments of the crust, and before returning the crew released a small subsatellite, the first launched from a crewed spacecraft. On the way back, at 276,000 km from Earth, Worden went outside to retrieve the film cassettes. Splashdown took place on 7 August with only two of the three parachutes deployed, a margin allowed for in the design. The crew returned with about 1,400 photographs.