Apollo 15

fourth Moon landing and ninth crewed flight of the United States Apollo program

American engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, former test pilot, and former NASA astronaut (born 1932)

American astronaut (1930-1991)

type of battery-powered four-wheeled rover used on the Moon in the last three missions of the American Apollo program

American astronaut (1932–2020)

sculpture of an astronaut on the moon

rock retrieved from the Moon in 1971

scandal

meteorite on the Moon

thumb|right|Orbital photo of the Hadley-Apennine site; Apollo 15 landing site is marked with a circle. Hadley–Apennine is a region on the near side of Earth's Moon that served as the landing site for the American Apollo 15 mission, the fourth crewed landing on the Moon and the first of the "J-missions", in July 1971. The site is located on the eastern edge of Mare Imbrium on a lava plain known as Palus Putredinis. Hadley–Apennine is bordered by the Montes Apenninus (often referred to as "Apennine Front"), a mountain range, and Hadley Rille, a meandering channel, on the east and west, respectiv