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SPACE ART: Apollo 15 Command Module EVA

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(Above) This is an artist’s concept of the Apollo 15 Command/Service Modules, showing two crewmen performing a new Apollo extravehicular activity.

The figure at left represents Astronaut Alfred M. Worden, Command Module (CM) pilot, connected by an umbilical tether to the CM. At right, a figure representing Astronaut James B. Irwin, Lunar Module pilot, stands at the open CM hatch. Worden is working with the panoramic camera in the Scientific Instrument Module (SIM). Behind Irwin is the 16mm data acquisition camera.


Apollo 12 Lunar EVA Training

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Astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean (Apollo 12) participate in lunar surface extravehicular activity (EVA) simulations in the Flight Crew Training Building at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC).

Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., commander (facing camera), simulates picking up samples. Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot, simulates photographic lunar rock sample documentation.


SPACE ART: Apollo 9 EVA

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(Above) This is an artist’s concept illustrating a part of the planned Apollo 9 extravehicular activity on the fourth day of the mission as the Command/Servic Module is docked to the Lunar Module. The figure performing the EVA represents Astronaut Russel L. Schweickart, Apollo 9 lunar module pilot.


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