On July 26, 1971, NASA launched Apollo 15, the fourth successful mission to touch down on the moon. The Saturn V rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center at 9:34 a.m.

Top image: Apollo 15 astronauts Jim Irwin, Al Worden, and Dave Scott pose with their corvettes next to the 1-g lunar rover trainer as part of the June 11, 1971 special edition of Life Magazine ...

Apollo 15 alone cost NASA close to $450 million in 1971, and the LRV-1 project accounted for less than three percent of that. Some journalists of the day called it “the most expensive vehicle ...

NASA's Apollo 15 mission launched July 26, 1971, and marked the debut of the "moon buggy" as well as the three moonwalks and the longest stay yet on the moon's surface.

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.

The Apollo 15 astronauts Jim Irwin and Dave Scott were the first off-planet drivers, taking a lunar rover for a spin around Hadley Rille in 1971. But before … Continued ...

Apollo 15 returned to Earth on Aug. 7, 1971, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean. CURIOSITY: NASA Mars Exploration Rover Curiosity landed at Gale Crater on Aug. 6, 2012, and is still in operation!

"Apollo 15's mission commander, who is also the seventh man to walk on the moon and the first to drive the lunar rover, made history while wearing his personally-gifted Bulova chronograph." ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden, who circled the moon alone in 1971 while his two crewmates test-drove the first lunar rover, died Wednesday at age 88.

The resulting first American rover landed on the Moon with the Apollo 15 mission 50 years ago Friday on July 30, 1971. It was “America’s first rover,” Creel points out, because Russia had ...

A replica of the Apollo 15 lunar rover will be at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force Monday only. An exhibit celebrating the 50th anniversary of that mission will be in place through Saturday.

And in July 1971, it was Worden, Irwin, and Scott’s turn to fly to the Moon aboard Apollo 15. Lunar missions had become almost routine by 1971, two years after the July 1969 Apollo 11 landing ...