Question 1

True or false: Apollo 15 was the first mission to use the Lunar Roving Vehicle on the Moon.

Accepted Answer

True. Apollo 15 debuted the LRV, a battery-powered rover that let astronauts explore farther from the lander.

Question 2

True or false: The crew of Apollo 15 included a geologist who trained the astronauts before launch.

Accepted Answer

False. No geologist flew on Apollo 15—the crew were all test pilots. Astronaut-geologist Harrison Schmitt flew later on Apollo 17.

Question 3

True or false: Apollo 15's Lunar Module Falcon landed on the Moon with less than 30 seconds of fuel remaining.

Accepted Answer

True. The descent was so fuel-critical that mission control called it a 'close one'—only about 20 seconds of propellant left at touchdown.

Question 4

True or false: Apollo 15 astronauts collected a sample of 'Genesis Rock' believed to be from the Moon's primordial crust.

Accepted Answer

True. They found anorthosite 15415, nicknamed the Genesis Rock, thought to be over 4 billion years old from the early lunar crust.

Question 5

True or false: Apollo 15 astronauts left a small aluminum sculpture on the Moon called the Fallen Astronaut.

Accepted Answer

True. They placed a statuette and a plaque honoring 14 fallen astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts, without NASA's official approval.

Question 6

True or false: Apollo 15 was the first mission to perform a spacewalk in deep space en route to the Moon.

Accepted Answer

False. No deep-space EVA occurred on Apollo 15. The first deep-space spacewalk was on Apollo 9 (Earth orbit) and Apollo 15 had no such EVA.

Question 7

True or false: Apollo 15's command module was named 'Endeavour' after the ship of explorer James Cook.

Accepted Answer

False. It was actually named 'Endeavour' but after the Space Shuttle Endeavour, which was named later. The CM was named after Cook's ship.

Question 8

True or false: Apollo 15 carried a flag that had been flown over the U.S. Capitol before launch.

Accepted Answer

False. No special Capitol flag was on Apollo 15. All Apollo flags were standard nylon flags, though later missions had ceremonial ones.

Apollo 15 Trivia Questions