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Apollo 15: Countdown

on BBC One London

Direct from Launch pad 39 A at Cape Kennedy, the last crucial preparations and checks before the scheduled lift-off of the most heavily laden Apollo Spacecraft ever: America's first manned mission to the highest mountain ranges of the Moon.
Blast-off due at 2.34 pm London time: 9.34 am at Cape Kennedy
With the Apollo 15 crew: Col David R. Scott, USA The Mission Commander; Lt Col James B. Irwin, USAF Lunar Module Pilot, and Major Alfred M. Worden, USAF Command Module Pilot interviewed in Houston before the Mission by James Burke.
With him in the London space studio Patrick Moore, Wg Cdr Tony Nicholson from the RAF Medical Branch, Geoffrey Pardoe, Director of Space Projects, Hawker Siddeley
Presented in conjunction with NASA, ASU and the US Networks
(Moon Buggy: pages 8 and 9)
(Colour)

Contributors

Interviewee:
Col David R. Scott
Interviewee:
Lt Col James B. Irwin
Interviewee:
Major Alfred M. Worden
Interviewer/Presenter:
James Burke
Expert:
Patrick Moore
Expert:
Wg Cdr Tony Nicholson
Expert:
Geoffrey Pardoe
Producer:
Tam Fry
Editor:
Michael Bukht
Executive Producer:
Richard Francis

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