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- Birth nameAlfred Merrill Worden
- Alfred Worden is an American astronaut and engineer who was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. One of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, he orbited it 74 times in the Command Module Endeavour. When the orbiting command module was at its greatest distance from Scott and Irwin in the Falcon, Worden was 2,235 miles (3,597 km) away from any other human beings
Worden has been listed in Guinness World Records as the "Most isolated human being" during his time alone in the command module Endeavour.
- IMDb mini biography by: anonymous
- SpousesJill Lee Hotchkiss(July 1982 - May 4, 2014) (her death, 1 child)Pamela Ellen Vander Beek(June 1955 - December 1969) (divorced, 2 children)Jill Lee Hotchkiss Worden (3 children)Sandra Lee Wilder (divorced)
- Astronaut. Command Module Pilot on Apollo 15 (1971). Has orbited the moon.
- Worden logged 38 minutes in extravehicular activity outside the command module Endeavour. In completing his three excursions to Endeavour's scientific instrument module bay, Worden retrieved film cassettes from the panoramic and mapping cameras and reported his personal observations of the general condition of equipment housed there. Apollo 15 concluded with a Pacific splashdown and subsequent recovery by the USS Okinawa. In completing his space flight, Worden logged 295 hours and 11 minutes in space.
- Planned to sell 100 commemorative first day covers taken to the moon to a German stamp dealer. The profits of the sale were used to establish trust funds for their children. Though technically not illegal none of the crew members ever flew another mission.
- Worden has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "Most isolated human being" during his time alone in the command module Endeavour. When the orbiting command module was at its greatest distance from crew members Dave Scott and James Irwin in the "Falcon," Worden was 2,235 miles away from any other human beings.
- He was the Command Module Pilot when Dave Scott and James Irwin on Apollo 15 explored the canyon Hadley Rille for 2 1/2 days, being the first to use a vehicle (Lunar Rovign Vehicle or LRV) on the moon. Apollo 15 was an all Air Force flight since all three astronauts were from that branch of the service. The lunar module was called Falcon after the Air Force Academy mascot and the command module was designated Endeavour.
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