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\nAl Worden, Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 15 mission talks about the US space programme during the space race and the future of lunar exploration.\n<\/p>\n
\nColonel Worden is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, and he is best known as the first astronaut to make a spacewalk in deep space, during the return of his Apollo flight from the Moon in 1971.\n<\/p>\n
\nIn an interview recorded at the Technik Museum Speyer, Germany, Al Worden describes his mission as the first truly scientific flight in the Apollo programme.\n<\/p>\n
\nFind out more about the why and how of lunar exploration on ESA\u2019s interactive guide of the Moon: https:\/\/lunarexploration.esa.int\/#\/intro<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \nAl Worden, Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 15 mission talks about the US space programme during the space race and the future of lunar exploration.\n<\/p>\n \nColonel Worden is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon, and he is best known as the first astronaut to make a spacewalk in deep space, during the return of his Apollo flight from the Moon in 1971.\n<\/p>\n \nIn an interview recorded at the Technik Museum Speyer, Germany, Al Worden describes his mission as the first truly scientific flight in the Apollo programme.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n