Worden was the command module pilot on Apollo 15, the fourth mission to land astronauts on the Moon.
Astronaut Alfred M. Worden standing beside T-38 aircraft and displaying his flying helmet with “Snoopy” cartoon character painted on it.
Worden served as the command module pilot for Apollo 15 in 1971, the fourth lunar landing mission and the first to use a lunar rover. Remaining in orbit while commander David Scott and lunar module pilot James B. Irwin explored Hadley Rille and the Apennine Mountains, Worden photographed the lunar surface and made other observations. On the return trip to Earth, Worden made three spacewalks to retrieve film from an instrument module in the Apollo spacecraft.