Apollo 15 astronauts return - Apollo 15 command module near splashdown - The Apollo 15...

Apollo 15 astronauts return - Apollo 15 command module near splashdown - The Apollo 15 control module at landing. 07/08/1971. The Apollo 15 Command Module, with Astronauts David R. Scott, Alfred M. Worden and James B. Irwin aboard, nears a safe touchdown in the mid - Pacific Ocean to end their lunar landing mission. Although causing no harm to the crewmen, one of the three main parachutes failed to function properly. The splashdown occurred at 3:45:53 p.m., August 7, 1971, some 330 miles north of Honolulu, Hawaii. The three astronauts were picked up by helicopter and flown to the prime recovery ship USS Okinawa, which was only 6 1/2 miles away