El ESCÁNDALO que sacudió a la NASA en la Misión Apollo 15

Video from the channel GalaxiaNova about Apollo 15, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 9:36. Language: Spanish. Video type: Documentary.

Spanish-language explainer piece about the controversy over the postal covers from the Apollo 15 mission (AS-510). It recounts how David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin carried stamped covers aboard as the result of a deal with a stamp dealer, and how the matter came to light after their return.

The video places the episode in a 1971 mission that was the first with a lunar rover and the first in the program with a clearly scientific focus: nearly three days on the surface, several spacewalks and 77 kg of samples, including the so-called Genesis Rock. According to the narration, the commercial deal drew pressure from Congress and the press; the three astronauts faced no criminal charges but were sidelined from future missions, and NASA tightened control over the personal items that could be carried aboard.

The piece notes that some of those covers resurfaced decades later at auction, and that in 2014 Scott sold an Omega Speedmaster watch he owned that had been used on the mission.