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  • Apollo astronaut Al Worden dies at 88

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    Astronaut Al Worden is seen during training before the Apollo 15 mission in 1971. Credit: NASA Former astronaut Al Worden, who orbited the moon and performed the first spacewalk in deep space in 1971, died Wednesday in Texas. He was 88. Born Feb. 7, 1932, in Jackson, Michigan, Worden graduated from United States Military Academy at…