... August 2012 Feature . Apollo 15 brings back 4 billion-year-old moon rock . ... sample number 15415, was an anorthosite, a piece of the moon?s primordial crust ... Geologists, hoping to learn more about the moon and its origins, selected the Hadley ...
... As Apollo orbited the moon, the Lunar Module, known as the "Eagle" by its two crewmembers, Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, separated nicely from the mother ship on the back side of the moon. ...
... A hero of the American Space Odyssey, Frank Borman led the first team of American astronauts to circle the moon, extending man's horizons into space. ...
... He was one of the two men to have flown to the moon on two occasions, and as commander of the last mission to the moon, Apollo 17, had the privilege and distinction of being the last man to have left his footprints on the surface of the moon. ...
... six-day journey of Apollo 8 - man's maiden voyage to the moon - December 21-27, 1968 ... 13 flight, April 11-17, 1970, and became the first man to journey twice to the moon ...
... module pilot, uses a scoop in making a trench in the lunar soil during Apollo 15 extravehicular activity (EVA) on the moon ... descended in the Lunar Module (LM) to explore the moon, astronaut Alfred M. Worden, command module pilot, remained with the ...
... of Earth rising over the lunar surface was taken from the Command Module Endeavor during the 24th revolution of the moon ... and James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot, descended in the Lunar Module to explore the Hadley-Apennine area of the moon ...
... in photo and telescopic mapping of the Moon, and was among USGS astrogeologists ... and stratigraphic analyses of samples returned from the moon by Apollo missions ...