NASA Remembers Apollo Astronaut Al Worden

NASA astronaut Al Worden has died at the age of 88.

Worden served as command module pilot for Apollo 15 with Dave Scott and Jim Irwin. During the mission Worden became the first human to carry out a deep space walk. He logged 38 minutes in extravehicular activity outside the command module, “Endeavour.”

During 1972-1973, Worden was Senior Aerospace Scientist at the NASA Ames Research Center, and from 1973 to 1975, he was chief of the Systems Study Division at Ames.

This video is available for download from NASA’s Image and Video Library: https://images.nasa.gov/details-al%20worden_fixed

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