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'''Alfred Merrill Worden''' (born February_7, 1932) is an AmericanAstronaut who was the command module pilot for the Apollo_15 moon mission in July-August 1971. The son of Merrill and Helen Worden, he was born in Jackson, Michigan.
==Education==
Attended Dibble, Griswold, Bloomfield and East Jackson grade schools and completed his secondary education at Jackson High School: Received a bachelor of military science degree from the United_States_Military_Academy at West Point, New_York, in 1955 and master of science degrees in Astronautical/Aeronautical Engineering and Instrumentation Engineering from the University_of_Michigan in 1963. Received honorary doctorate of science in Astronautical Engineering from University of Michigan in 1971.
==Experience==
Worden was graduated from the United States Military Academy in June 1955 and, after being commissioned in the Air Force, received flight training at Moore_Air_Force_Base, Texas; Laredo_Air_Force_Base, Texas; and Tyndall_Air_Force_Base, Florida.
Prior to his arrival for duty at the Johnson_Space_Center, he served as an instructor at the Aerospace Research Pilots School-- from which he graduated in September 1965. He is also a February 1965 graduate of the Empire Test_Pilot_School in Farnborough, England.
He attended Randolph_Air_Force_Base Instrument Pilots Instructor School in 1963 and served as a pilot and armament officer from March 1957 to May 1961 with the 95th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Andrews_Air_Force_Base, Maryland.
He has logged more than 4,000 hours flying time--which includes 2,500 hours in jets.
===NASA experience===
Worden was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He served as a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo_9 flight and as backup command module pilot for the Apollo_12 flight.
Worden served as command module pilot for Apollo_15, July 26 - August 7, 1971. His companions on the flight were David_Scott, spacecraft commander, and James_B._Irwin, lunar module commander. Apollo 15 was the fourth manned lunar landing mission and the first to visit and explore the moon's Hadley_Rille and Apennene_Mountains which are located on the southeast edge of the Mare_Imbrium (Sea of Rains). Apollo 15 achievements include: Largest payloads placed in earth and lunar orbits; first scientific instrument module bay flown and operated on an Apollo spacecraft; longest lunar surface stay time (the lunar module, "Falcon," remained on ground for 66 hours and 54 minutes); longest lunar surface EVA (Scott and Irwin logged 18 hours and 35 minutes each during three excursions onto the lunar surface); longest distance traversed on lunar surface; first use of lunar roving vehicle; first use of a lunar surface navigation device (mounted on Rover-1); first subsatellite launched in lunar orbit; and first EVA from a command module during transearth coast.
Scott and Irwin collected approximately 171 pounds of lunar surface materials on their three expeditions onto the lunar surface; and Worden logged 38 minutes in extravehicular activity outside the command module, "Endeavour." In completing his three excursions to "Endeavour's" scientific instrument module bay, Worden retrieved film cassettes from the panoramic and mapping cameras and reported his personal observations of the general condition of equipment housed there. Apollo 15 concluded with a Pacific splashdown and subsequent recovery by the USS_Okinawa. In completing his space flight, Worden logged 295 hours and 11 minutes in space.
During 1972-1973, Worden was Senior Aerospace Scientist at the NASA Ames_Research_Center, and from 1973 to 1975, he was chief of the Systems Study Division at Ames.
After retirement from active duty in 1975, Worden became President of Maris Worden Aerospace, Inc., and is currently Staff Vice-President of BG Goodrich Aerospace Brecksville, Ohio.
Married to Jill Lee Worden (nee Hotchkiss), he has three children. His recreational interests include bowling, water skiing, golf and racquet ball.
In the 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon Worden was played by Michael_Raynor.
==Bibliography==
* ''Hello Earth; Greetings from Endeavour'' Nash Publishing (1974) ISBN 0-8402-1343-3
* ''I Want to Know About a Flight to the Moon'' Doubleday; [1st ed.] edition (1974) ISBN 0-385-05837-3
Source: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/worden-am.html
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