The spacecraft Apollo 15’s command and service module was named Endeavour (CSM-112), after HMS Endeavour. The lunar module (LM-10) was named Falcon after the United States Air Force Academy mascot.

Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot Al Worden has died at age 88, his family confirmed Wednesday. Worden circled the moon alone in 1971 while, below, his two crewmates test-drove the first lunar rover.

Worden served as the command module pilot on Apollo 15, the first lunar mission to carry scientific instruments in the command module. While orbiting the Moon alone, farther from other people than ...

Apollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden's AstroVette, as seen in 2022, prior to the start of its complete restoration.

In the world of "The Last of Us," the Apollo 15 command module and other space exploration artifacts are abandoned on display at the Wyoming Museum of Science and History. | Credit: HBO Max ...

Apollo 15, NASA's fourth manned lunar landing mission, launches July 26, 1971 carrying crewmembers David R. Scott, commander; Alfred M. Worden, command module pilot; and James B. Irwin, lunar ...

Here’s how it works. Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden inside a command module simulator prior to the 1971 moon landing mission. (Image credit: NASA) ...

Apollo 15 introduced the lunar rover and let the astronauts perform deeper science. Take a look back at stories small and large that go "behind the mission." ...

Former astronaut Al Worden, who piloted the orbiting command module during the Apollo 15 moon landing in 1971, died Wednesday in Texas, NASA said. He was 88.

On July 26, 1971, at 9:34 am EDT, Apollo 15 lifted off the Pad A of Launch Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center on the first true lunar exploration mission. Using an improved Lunar Module, the ...

Pedro Pascal, as "Joel," inside the Apollo 15 command module as part of episode 6 of season 2 of "The Last of Us." The cassette he is holding has a very hard-to-find recording.