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Events on Saturday 7 August 1971 1
1971Apollo 15 MissionFirst mission with a Lunar Roving VehicleDavid Scott and James Irwin drove the first Lunar Roving Vehicle across the Hadley-Apennine region of the Moon while Alfred Worden orbited overhead. The mission collected the largest sample of lunar material returned to that point. It was the first of NASA's extended-duration J missions.