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The San Diego Air & Space Museum is proud to be the one-and-only host of the official Apollo 15 50th Anniversary. Clearly one of the Apollo program’s finest moments, the Apollo 15 50th Anniversary Celebration takes place at the Museum on Saturday, July 31. Apollo 15 Commander Colonel David R. Scott (USAF Ret.) and Flight Director Gerry Griffin will highlight an All-Star panel discussion focusing on one the most carefully planned scientific explorations in human history. Apollo 15 explored the Hadley Apennine region of the Moon, the most scientifically significant site of the entire Apollo program. After a three-day transit and one day in lunar orbit, Commander Dave Scott and Lunar Module Pilot Jim Irwin landed their Lunar Module “Falcon” near Hadley Rille at the base of the Apennine mountains to live and work on the Moon for three days, as Command Module Pilot Al Worden orbited the Moon in the Command Module “Endeavor”, operating a large suite of sophisticated scientific instruments. Scott and Irwin drove the first Lunar Roving Vehicle to explore three areas of unique geological features on the slopes of Hadley Delta mountain (9,000 feet) and the edge of Hadley Rille (1,000 feet deep, 1.5 miles across).
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San Diego Air & Space Museum, San Diego, United States
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