Apollo 15 - Launch - 50th Anniversary (1971-2021)

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Jack King's last launch as PAO...Legend...

I met Dave Scott at the SpaceFest in Tucson, AZ., in August, 2019.

Apollo 15 is the most beautiful of the lunar missions, the landing site in the Hadley-Apennines region was a true marvel.

After Apollo 15 cleared the tower, the PAO switched over from Jack King at KSC to Terry White in Houston. The Capcom was Gordon Fullerton relaying info. to Apollo 15's CDR David Scott.

Everyone remembers Apollo 11 - but I enjoy the later missions too as they had the buggie and drove around all over the place. What a thrill it must have been to ride a Saturn V. Not many alive can still say that.

Great upload Lunar module 5. First of the J missions. RIP Jim Irwin and Al Worton.

I saw Jame Irwin’s spacesuit once at an air and space museum

The calmest voice of Dave Scott! True pro. Been there and done it already

In 1997, while I was living in Orlando, I was hired to be an extra on the HBO series From the Earth to the Moon. The most memorable moment, was to shake hands with, and briefly converse with Apollo 15 commander David Scott.

They show the Astronaut Van which is at the Saturn Center. It used to have a step, which has disappeared. I used to tell anybody who whould listen, "Want to put your foot where everyman who went to the moon stepped?" I pointed to the step and put my foot on it. That was cool. Anybody else do that?

Oh no I missed it. No worries I'm going to watch it an hour late. Happy 50th anniversary 😊

My neighbor is al wordons sister. We just this week commissioned an artist to paint a mural of al wordon the command module pilot on the flight. He's born and raised in my town. He holds the guiness record for both the furthest space walk from earth and the farthest from earth period ever while circling the moon.

Thanks for making this.

There's a pub near my house that was visited by Jim Irwin the year after the Apollo 15 mission. They have a signed picture of him on the moon. Pretty cool stuff!

Happy 50 years

When I was a little kid only a decade ago and I was still building my appreciation for the space program, I was very surprised to see Al Worden make several appearances on my favorite television show Mr Rogers Neighborhood. Al Worden really opened me up more on how astronauts work and live in space like how space suits and space food work.

My mum was born on the launch day

HI LM5--What can I say? You produce stuff that is just CRAZY GOOD!! If I may, I would like to add a bit of 'trivia' for this flight. Being the first 'J' mission, the translunar payload weight was increased by several thousand pounds. To do this, several 'tweaks' were made to the Saturn V and to the procedures. You probably know that the S-II 'ullage' rockets were deleted. Sandia Labs worked out the delay necessary for S-II engine start to ensure that the propellants had 'sloshed' to the rear of the S-II tanks, so that the J-2 turbopumps would ingest liquid without the benefit of the 'ullage' acceleration. Also, this flight was launched on an azimuth of 80 degrees rather than the 'usual' 72 degrees. This resulted in a significant payload performance gain. Also, the 'Flight Performance Reserves' ('FPRs') were cut back such that the mission was no longer protected against a '3-sigma low' launch vehicle performance. Instead, the FPRs were such that only 2-sigma low was protected. These things enabled the vehicle performance increase.

My first rocket launch! Got my Bulova moon watch set.