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[b]Space Cover #556: Remembering Al Worden[/b] Al Worden. When you would meet Al for the first time he made you feel like you had known him your entire life. You would be greeted with a hearty handshake, a jovial smile and usually a witty comment. I would see Al at Spacefest each year in Tucson and usually at one or two other Space events each year. Each time I had a great time with him, and i think he with me! We joked, laughed, talked Space and Art, and I listened to all the wonderful stories he always enjoyed sharing. Al Worden was Command Module pilot on the Apollo 15 Lunar mission. During the return home to earth Al performed the first spacewalk in deep space becoming the first person to ever see both the earth and the moon in Space. "I realized I had a unique viewpoint: I could see the entire moon if I looked in one direction. Turning my head, I could see the entire Earth. The view is impossible to see on Earth or on the moon," Worden recalled of his time floating in the vacuum of space, more than 196,000 miles (315,500 km) from Earth. "I had to be far enough away from both. In all of human history, no one had been able to see what I could just by turning my head. It was incredible." Worden's memoir Falling to Earth, co-authored with Francis French tells the story of his life, the mission, the return home and his leaving NASA leaving NASA amid the controversy surrounding flown philatelic covers. That is a story for another Space Cover of the Week... This week we celebrate the life and career of Apollo astronaut Al Worden. Let's see your favorite Al Worden covers! Here are a few of mine- [list=1][*](Above) Apollo 15 First Scientific EVA, Kennedy Space Center AUG 5, 1971 cancel. [*]Command Module Pilot Al Worden Apollo 15 Splashdown, Hometown Jackson MI cancel AUG 7, 1971 [*]Apollo 15 Subsatellite, Houston TX AUG 4, 1971 cancel with Robert Rank's "Glow-in-the-Dark" Moon cachet![/list] This photograph was taken last May in Weatherford, Oklahoma during the Apollo 10 50th anniversary weekend. This how I will always remember Al Worden.
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