March 19 (UPI) --Former astronaut Al Worden, who piloted the orbiting command module during the Apollo 15 moon landing in 1971, died Wednesday in Texas, NASA said. He was 88. Worden, who began his ...

With the success of Apollo 14 behind them and the near tragedy of Apollo 13 firmly in the past, Apollo’s mission planners hiked the length and sophistication of the following mission. Apollo 15 was ...

NASA’s Al Worden is one of the Apollo programme astronauts who flew to the Moon but never landed on its surface. As the Command Module Pilot for Apollo 15, Mr Worden stayed in lunar orbit while David ...

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WASHINGTON - JULY 29: Al Worden promotes his book "Falling To Earth: An Apollo 15 Astronaut's Journey To The Moon" at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum on July 29, 2011 in Washington, DC ...