{"id":17764,"date":"2020-03-19T01:46:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T17:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/apollo-15-astronaut-al-worden-dies-at-88-leaving-11-living-moon-travelers\/"},"modified":"2020-03-19T01:46:14","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T17:46:14","slug":"apollo-15-astronaut-al-worden-dies-at-88-leaving-11-living-moon-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/apollo-15-astronaut-al-worden-dies-at-88-leaving-11-living-moon-travelers\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden dies at 88, leaving 11 living moon travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe title=\"NASA Remembers Apollo Astronaut Al Worden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8UhnO53XoHM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Retired astronaut Al Worden, who was once called the \u201cloneliest human being\u201d because of his role as Apollo 15\u2019s command module pilot in 1971, died in his sleep in Houston on Tuesday night at the age of 88, his family announced.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Worden orbited the moon alone for three days in Apollo 15\u2019s command module while crewmates Dave Scott and Jim Irwin explored the lunar surface. That earned him the \u201cloneliest\u201d label from the BBC, plus a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records. Worden was also the first person to perform a spacewalk in deep space.<\/li>\n<li>After returning to Earth, Worden made several guest appearances on \u201cMister Rogers\u2019 Neighborhood.\u201d The Air Force veteran retired from NASA and from active military duty in 1975, in the wake of a controversy over stamps that were carried aboard the Apollo spacecraft and then sold to collectors.<\/li>\n<li>Worden\u2019s post-NASA career included executive roles at Maris Worden Aerospace and Goodrich Aerospace. NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said he was \u201cdeeply saddened\u201d to hear of Worden\u2019s passing and hailed him as an American hero. Eleven Apollo moon travelers are still living, including four moonwalkers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Correction for 6:25 p.m. PT March 18: <\/strong>We\u2019ve corrected the designation of Worden\u2019s mission in one reference.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retired astronaut Al Worden, who was once called the \u201cloneliest human being\u201d because of his role as Apollo 15\u2019s command module pilot in 1971, died in his sleep in Houston on Tuesday night at the age of 88, his family announced. Worden orbited the moon alone for three days in Apollo 15\u2019s command module while [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2288,1651,2289,4029],"class_list":["post-17764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-al-worden","tag-apollo","tag-apollo-15","tag-space-history"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}