532 a
James Irwin

Human tracks at the lunar-science station

Apollo 15, July 26 - August 7, 1971, EVA 3, 164:21:50 GET

Vintage chromogenic print on resin coated Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso [NASA AS15-88-11876]

532 b
James Irwin

A photograph and other “souvenirs” left on the lunar surface

Apollo 15, July 26 - August 7, 1971, EVA 3, 164:03:40 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS15-88-11870” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin

532 c
James Irwin

Hadley Base at the foot of the Apennine mountain range

Apollo 15, July 26 - August 7, 1971, EVA 3, 164:25:44 GET

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA Goddard caption on the verso, numbered “NASA G-72-248” in black in bottom margin [NASA AS15-82-11057]

532 d
James Irwin

David Scott at the Lunar Rover at the lunar-science station

Apollo 15, July 26 - August 7, 1971, EVA 3, 164:25:44 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “NASA AS15-82-11061” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

532 c
Jacobs, p.100.

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532 a
Wheel tracks, foot tracks and the trench that James Irwin dug at the lunar-science station during the previous EVA are visible in this photograph.

164:19:02 Allen (Mission Control): Jim, we need pictures of your beautiful trench there and the collapsed wall. And we’d like, I guess, a photo pan around this remarkable core hole. [...]
164:21:44 Irwin: Okay; well I’m going to take these pictures that Joe (Allen) requested. And if you need any help, just holler, and I’ll be right back.
164:21:49 Scott: Okay.
164:21:50 Irwin: Because I’m right here. (Pause) Here’s my trench, yeah.

532 b
The photograph left on the lunar surface is the object at the lower left. A close look at it shows the B&W portrait of an elderly man, balding, with shirt and tie.

In his book To Rule the Night, Irwin wrote “There were a number of things we left on the Moon purposely. I left some medallions, flat pieces of silver with the fingerprints of Mary and our children. And as a result of a letter that I got two months before launch, I also left a small portrait of J. B. Irwin. A young lady sent me a picture of her father, J. B. Irwin, saying that he had talked about his desire to go to the Moon all his life. He died at seventy-five, before the first manned landing. I thought it would be a gracious gesture to take J. B.’s picture and leave it on the Moon.”

532 c
A frame from the panoramic sequence taken by Irwin with Scott’s camera at the lunar-science station (ALSEP site) after he first tried to take a panorama with his own camera which jammed again after its failure during EVA 2.

[NASA caption] LM, flag, Solar Wind composition experiment, Apennine front in left background, Hadley Delta in right background, Last Crater is to the right of LM, bootprints and Rover tracks in lunar soil, looking southeast, light spherical object is reflection of lens camera.

164:24:43 Irwin: Going to grab your camera, Dave.
164:24:44 Scott: Yeah.
164:24:45 Irwin: Mag’s jammed.
164:24:47 Scott: Is it?
164:24:49 Irwin: That’s the one that jammed yesterday, isn’t it? Yeah.
164:24:51 Scott: No, It worked...Is that right?
164:24:53 Irwin: It was working there for a while, and then it jammed again.

532 d
A frame of the panoramic sequence taken by Irwin with Scott’s camera at the lunar-science station (ALSEP site) as his own camera malfunctioned; thus the astronauts had only one 60mm lens Hasselblad camera for the EVA 3 traverse. Scott is storing core samples extracted from the lunar surface at the back of the rover.

164:26:56 Irwin: Okay. The pan’s complete here, Joe (Allen at Mission Control).
164:26:59 Allen: Super.
164:27: Irwin: And I think I’ll take advantage of the time and put a black and white (magazine) on my camera.
164:27:11 Allen: Sounds good.
164:27:12 Scott: You have a new mag on there today, Jim. It couldn’t have been the one that failed yesterday.
164:27:17 Irwin: No, I had the color mag on there, TT. That’s the one that was on there yesterday.
164:27:20 Scott: No it wasn’t, either. TT is brand new.
164:27:23 Allen: That’s right, Dave. Tango Tango is a brand new mag. (Long Pause)
164:27:38 Irwin: Okay. I’ll throw a little malfunction procedure on it (meaning the Hasselblad) then.