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Later the astronauts were confronted by the first plumbing crisis in space: Endeavour s drinking-water tank developed a leak. Like any suburban homeowner, Scott whipped out a wrench stowed for just such an emergency, tightened a suspect valve and succeeded in stemming the flow. "We had a small flood up here," he said. "All we have to do now is hang up a few towels...
...park the rover 300 ft. from Falcon and 31 hrs. later, at 1:09 p.m., the car's camera should give the world its first live view of a spacecraft blasting off from the moon. By 3:04 p.m., Scott and Irwin should dock with the command module Endeavour (named for the ship used by 18th century English Navigator and Explorer James Cook). That will also reunite them with Worden, who will have conducted more scientific experiments than any other command-module pilot during his three days alone in lunar orbit...
Space Walk. Before the Endeavour changes course for home, the astronauts are scheduled to launch a small (78.5 lb.) satellite into lunar orbit. It is equipped to radio back scientific information about the moon's surface and environment for more than a year. Then, after they begin the long journey back to earth, Worden is scheduled to take man's first "walk" in deep space. With a TV camera trained on him, he will climb outside the ship while it is about 200,000 miles from earth and retrieve film cassettes from cameras in an open equipment...
...days later, on Saturday afternoon, Aug. 7, Endeavour is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific, 328 miles north of Hawaii. For the astronauts, it should be an especially warm homecoming. Since no moon bugs or other dangerous sources of contamination have been brought back to earth on previous flights, NASA will not require the men of Apollo 15 to undergo the usual 21-day postflight quarantine...
...their Ph.D.s. Even the third member of the all-Air Force crew, Alfred M. Worden, 39, who also will be making his first space venture, has been given an extra dose of scientific indoctrination. While waiting for his buddies to rejoin him aboard the orbiting command ship Endeavour, he will conduct a host of experiments, including closeup photography of the moon with a specially designed stereo camera. He will also take a daring space walk on the trip home...