On July 26, 1971, NASA launched Apollo 15 — the mission that turned the Moon into a science playground. 🧑‍🚀✨ 👨‍🚀 Crew: David Scott (Commander) James Irwin (Lunar Module Pilot) Alfred Worden (Command Module Pilot) 🔑 Why Apollo 15 was special: ✅ First mission to take a Lunar Rover — yes, the Moon got its first car! The astronauts drove over 27 km exploring mountains and valleys. 🛻🌙 ✅ First mission to land near Hadley Rille and the Apennine Mountains — way more exciting terrain than flat pla

During Apollo 15’s second moonwalk (EVA-2) in 1971, astronauts David Scott and James Irwin made one of the most iconic discoveries in lunar history — the Genesis Rock! 🪨 This bright white stone, officially called Sample 15415, was found near Spur Crater on the slopes of Mons Hadley Delta. Scientists believed it might be a piece of the Moon’s original crust — one of the oldest rocks ever found by humankind. 🌑 Just imagine — while exploring in the lunar rover, they spotted this gleaming fragment

13K views · 593 reactions | 50 years ago today, on August 2, 1971, Apollo 15 Commander Dave Scott took advantage of the absence of an atmosphere on the Moon to demonstrate a finding by Galileo hundreds of years earlier, that all objects released at the same time will fall toward a center of gravity at the same rate regardless of mass. In this experiment, Scott drops a hammer and a feather, which then both hit the lunar surface simultaneously. | Project Apollo Archive | Facebook

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