NASA’s Al Worden is one of the Apollo programme astronauts who flew to the Moon but never landed on its surface. As the Command Module Pilot for Apollo 15, Mr Worden stayed in lunar orbit while David ...

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What’s it like to be the most isolated human in all eternity? Our space correspondent meets Al Worden, command module pilot of Apollo 15, who holds that dubious honour. Seven men in the history of ...

Astronaut Al Worden, who died on March 18 this year, was one of the 24 men who went to the Moon and back. In July 1971, Colonel Worden piloted the Command Module Endeavour in lunar orbit while his ...