Apollo 15 crew receive welcome on arrival at Ellington Air Force Base

WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES

07.15.2010

Courtesy Photo

NASA

The three crew men, of the highly successful Apollo 15 lunar landing mission, receive a warm welcome home at Ellington Air Force Base (EAFB), Houston, after an eight hour flight aboard a U.S. Air Force C-141 jet aircraft from Hawaii. Left to right, are astronauts David R. Scott, commander; Alfred M. Worden, command module pilot; and James B. Irwin, lunar module pilot. Apollo 15 splashdown in the mid-Pacific at 3:45 p.m. (CDT), August 7, 1971, some 330 miles north of Honolulu. The C-141 landed at EAFB at 9 p.m. (CDT), Sunday, August 8, 1971. Members of the astronauts' families identifiable in the picture are, left to right, Scott's daughter, Tracy; Worden's father, Merrill Worden; Worden's daughter, Merrill; and Irwin's two daughters, Joy and Jill.

NASA Identifier: S71-43428

• Date Taken: 07.15.2010
• Date Posted: 10.10.2012 11:01
• Photo ID: 684644
• Resolution: 3792x2514
• Size: 1.84 MB
• Location: WASHINGTON, DC, US