Nikon optics that flew on NASA’s Apollo 15 mission in 1971 informed the GRUS-3 telescope design.
The Apollo 15 mission highlighted contradictions between field observations and numerical simulations of lunar soil.
The Fallen Astronaut is an artwork left on the lunar surface during the Apollo 15 mission and is the only human figure remaining on the Moon.
The Apollo 15 mission left a memorial plaque for fallen astronauts at Hadley Rille on the Moon in 1971.
NASA deployed smallsats during the Apollo 15 and 16 missions at the command module as it left lunar orbit.