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Apollo-era Rover Veterans, NASA Moonbuggy Race Participants to Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Lunar Rover on Moon April 1
03.28.11
 
Angela Storey
256-544-0034
Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala.
angela.d.storey@nasa.gov

Image release: 11-034


Apollo 15 lunar module pilot James Irwin checks out the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the moon July 31, 1971. › Large (3000 x 3000, 300 ppi)
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NASA astronaut James Irwin, the lunar module pilot during the Apollo 15 mission, works on the Lunar Roving Vehicle during his first extravehicular activity at the Hadley-Appenine landing site on July 31, 1971. The view is looking northeast, with Mount Hadley in the background. Forty years later, on April 1, NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., and the U.S. Space & Rocket Center will host a 40th anniversary celebration of the lunar rover's first use on the moon. (NASA/David Scott)

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