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Apollo 15 crew

Learn about the first Lunar Roving Vehicle, first deep space spacewalk, and the other firsts of the Apollo 15 mission that launched from Kennedy Space Center 50 years ago.


A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars upward after lifting off from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30, 2020, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley to the International Space Station in a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule for the agency’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission.

From “one small step” to “we’ve had a problem”, read and reflect on quotes from astronauts who have played an integral part in NASA’s exploration of space.


Astronaut Alfred M. Worden

The visitor complex remembers the life of astronaut Al Worden. Al was the command module pilot on Apollo 15 astronaut and he passed away March 18, 2020.


A combined photo of the crew of the Apollo 12 and of Nancy Conrad, wife of the late Apollo 12 astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad.

Nancy Conrad shares stories about her late husband, Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad in honor of the 50th anniversary of the encore Moon landing. Hear about the adventures of the crew of Apollo 12!


Grissom and Young by Norman Rockwell, 1965

Did you know that NASA’s collaboration with art dates back to the first years of NASA? NASA science and art has worked together for decades and the visitor complex is celebrating this fall.