Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Apollo 15/archive1
Any thoughts or edits? (I'm posting this one early because I'll be tied up with another project for almost a month starting on the 13th. I don't know when this will be promoted at FAC.) - Dank (push to talk) 23:44, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
Apollo 15 (July 26 – August 7, 1971) was an American space mission in the Apollo program, the fourth to land on the Moon. Using a Lunar Roving Vehicle for the first time, Commander David Scott and Lunar Module Pilot James Irwin explored Hadley Rille, spending more time on the surface and traveling farther than in previous missions. They collected 77 kilograms (170 lb) of surface material. Command Module Pilot Alfred Worden remained in orbit, using cameras, a laser altimeter, and gamma-ray and mass spectrometers to collect data. On the journey home, Worden performed the first spacewalk in deep space. The mission accomplished its goals but was marred by negative publicity the following year when it emerged that the crew had carried unauthorized postal covers to the lunar surface, some of which were sold by a West German stamp dealer. They were reprimanded for poor judgment, and did not fly in space again. (Full article...)