This journal covers the flight of Apollo 15, from launch to splashdown. As a "living document" it will continue to grow and evolve and major changes will be intimated in the appropriate sci.space newsgroups. It is the current intention of the authors to bring all the manned Apollo flights to this site.

Also available:

• Apollo 8 Flight Journal.
• Apollo 11 Flight Journal.
• Apollo 12 Flight Journal.
• Apollo 16 Flight Journal.

Apollo 15

Travelling from the Earth to the Moon

• Launch and Reaching Earth Orbit
• Earth Orbit and Translunar Injection
• Transposition, Docking and Extraction
• SPS Troubleshooting and the PTC
• Day 2: Checking the SPS
• Day 2: Entering the LM
• Day 3: Flashing Lights
• Day 3: Leaking Water and the Top of the Hill
• Day 4: Lunar Encounter

In the Vicinity of the Moon

• Day 4: Lunar Orbit
• Day 5: Waking In the Descent Orbit
• Day 5: Preparations for Landing

The Solo Mission of Endeavour

• Solo Orbital Operations - 1
• Solo Orbital Operations - 2
• Solo Orbital Operations - 3
• Solo Orbital Operations - 4

Final Days in Lunar Orbit

• Rendezvous and Docking
• Leaking tunnel and Jettison of the LM
• Orbital Science and Crew Rest
• Day 10: Orbital Science

Homeward to Earth

• Subsatellite Launch and Trans-Earth Injection
• Settling down for the Journey Home
• Day 11: Worden's EVA Day
• Science and a Press Conference
• Splashdown Day

Apollo 15 Documents - with thanks to Bob Andrepont

• Full Flight Plan with PDF file (22 MB)
• CSM Launch Checklist (including abort checklists) with PDF file (4.45 MB)
• CSM Guidance & Control Checklist with PDF file (5.36 MB)
• CSM Systems Checklist with PDF file (2.90 MB)
• LM Activation Checklist with PDF file (535 kB)
• CSM Entry Checklist with PDF file (1.96 MB)
• Apollo 15 Mission Report (ALSJ) Alternate Source
• Apollo 15 Mission Operations Report (AS-510) Pre- and Post-Launch Information
• Apollo 15 mission report: Apollo 15 guidance, navigation, and control system performance analysis report (supplement 1)
• Apollo 15 mission report. Supplement 2: Service propulsion system final flight evaluation
• Apollo 15 mission report. Supplement 3: Ascent propulsion system final flight evaluation
• Apollo 15 Mission Report, Supplement 4 Descent propulsion system final flight evaluation
• Apollo 15 mission 5-day report
• Apollo 15 Presskit (KSC Library)
• On the Moon with Apollo 15 (ALSJ) Alternate Source
• Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report (ALSJ)
• Apollo 15 Technical Debriefing (ALSJ)
• Apollo 15 Final Lunar Surface Procedures (ALSJ)
• Apollo 15 LRV Stowage (ALSJ)
• Apollo 15 LM Cue Cards (ALSJ)
• Apollo 15 LM Data Cards (ALSJ)
• Apollo 15 Sample Catalog part 1 (ALSJ)
• Apollo 15 Sample Catalog part 2 (ALSJ)
• Apollo 15 Sample Catalog part 3 (ALSJ)
• Apollo 15 CM Software (ALSJ)
• Apollo 15 Saturn V Report (KLABS)
• Apollo 15 MCC Operational Configuration (KLABS)
• Flight Transcripts(Will open to an html page) (JSC)
• Apollo 15 Time and Motion Study
• The Apollo 15 coarse fines
• Coincidence in Time of the Imbrium Basin Impact and Apollo 15 KREEP Volcanic Flows: The Case for Impact-Induced Melting
• Apollo 15 mission. Temporary loss of command module television picture
• Mobility Performance of the Lunar Roving Vehicle: Terrestrial Studies: Apollo 15 Results
• Apollo 15 Preliminary Orbital Science Results
• Apollo 15 systems debriefing
• Analysis of Apollo 15 Hadley Apennine Preliminary Exploration Traverses
• MSFN coverage from insertion through injection burn for Apollo 15
• Apollo 15 30-day failure and anomaly listing report
• Apollo 15 voice transcript pertaining to the geology of the landing site
• Preliminary traverse planning for Apollo 15 Hadley-Apennine Status report
• CEMERLL: The Propagation of an Atmosphere-Compensated Laser Beam to the Apollo 15 Lunar Array (JPL)
• An Apollo 15 Mare Basalt Fragment and Lunar Mare Provinces
• The Apollo 15 coarse fines (4-10 mm)
• Apollo particles and fields subsatellite magnetometer experiment; with Apollo 15 subsatellite
• Apollo 15 LM Descent
• Apollo/Saturn 5 postflight trajectory AS-510
• Apollo 15 Mission Main Parachute Failure
• Photography Data Users' Note
• Index of 70-mm Photographs
• Index of Mapping Camera and Panoramic Camera Photographs
• SIM Bay Photographic Equipment and Mission Summary, Change "A"
• Apollo Photographic Evaluation (APE) Data Book

Journal Essays

• The Apollo On-board Computers - Phill Parker
  
• Lunar Orbit Insertion - Frank O'Brien
  
• Lunar Orbit Rendezvous - Frank O'Brien
  
• The SIM Bay Cameras - Robin Wheeler
  

The United States Government retains a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of the Apollo Flight Journal, or to allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes.

These files are copyright © 1998 - 2009. W. David Woods and Frank O'Brien.