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...Astronaut Jim Irwin bounded down the last step of the lunar-module ladder to join Scott, he kicked up a spray of fine black moon dust and shouted: "Oh boy, it's beautiful out here. It reminds me of Sun Valley." Scott reported the dust was 6 in. deep and "like soft, powdered snow." But it presented no problem to the astronauts. Together, the two men quickly launched into the now familiar unloading rou-tine of moon landings. Then they turned their attention to a machine that all the world was waiting to see: the first man-driven vehicle...
Apollo 15's commander, Dave Scott, and his fellow moon walker, Jim Irwin, are confident that the landing will be well worth the risks. So are NASA's scientists. Located at the southeastern edge of the Sea of Rains, the perilous highland landing site is farther north of the lunar equator than any area yet trod by man. It offers a scientifically tantalizing sampling of four major types of lunar features: a mare (or lunar sea of once molten lava), an alpine range called the Apennines, a deep, snaking rille or gorge and a variety of puzzling smaller...
...week, as final preparations were made for the dangerous journey, hundreds of thousands of tourists thronged the Cape Kennedy area. The great crowds were reminiscent of those that watched the lift-off of the first moon-landing expedition just over two years ago. Isolated in their crew area, Scott, Irwin and Command-Module Pilot Al Worden practiced maneuvers on Apollo flight simulators, underwent extensive medical examinations, took spins in a terrestrial version of their moon rover and reviewed the myriad details of their lengthy flight plans in the final hours of the countdown. Even the Russians helped. In response...
...back to the landing site, Scott will 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...
LIEUT. COLONEL JAMES B. IRWIN, 41, the lunar-module pilot, was almost barred from space. Severely injured in a 1961 plane crash (two broken legs, a fractured jaw and a concussion that temporarily wiped out part of his memory), Irwin was twice rejected by NASA before he was finally selected in 1966. Born in Pittsburgh, Pa., Irwin graduated from the Naval Academy in 1951, accepted a commission in the Air Force and quickly developed a taste for flying. Relatively short (5 ft. 8 in.) and introspective, he runs and plays tennis to keep in shape but seems to like...