Retro Space Images: Monitoring Apollo 15

Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images
Photo Credit: NASA / Retro Space Images

All Eyes on “Falcon”: This was the scene in Mission Control as the flight control team monitored the descent to the lunar surface by the Apollo 15 lunar module “Falcon.” Astronauts Dave Scott and Jim Irwin touched down safely on the Hadley-Appenine region of the Moon on July 30, 1971. Photo was taken at the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.

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