[NASA] Earth’s Crest Over the Lunar Horizon

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This view of the Earth’s crest over the lunar horizon was taken on July 29, 1971, during the

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lunar landing mission. Astronauts David Scott, Alfred Worden, and James Irwin

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from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard a Saturn V launch vehicle.

Designed to explore the Moon over longer periods, greater ranges, and with more instruments for the collection of scientific data than before, Apollo 15 included the introduction of a $40 million lunar roving vehicle (LRV) that reached a top speed of 10 mph (16 kph) across the Moon’s surface.

Upon

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at the Hadley-Apennine site, Scott and Irwin conducted four spacewalks, including three excursions using the LRV, for a combined total of 19 hours. Worden remained in orbit aboard the command module Endeavour.

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