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What Apollo 15 Got Right

A post-splashdown scandal did not undermine the mission’s scientific achievements.

  • By Diane Tedeschi
  • AirSpaceMag.com, May 13, 2011
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NASA/ Alfred M. Worden


While orbiting the moon in the command module Endeavour, Al Worden photographed a crescent Earth.


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Regardless of "stamp gate" these men contibuted to a giant leap in US science & technology and are true trailblazers.

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