- Astronaut. Command Module Pilot on Apollo 15 (1971). Has orbited the moon.
- Worden logged 38 minutes in extravehicular activity outside the command module Endeavour. In completing his three excursions to Endeavour's scientific instrument module bay, Worden retrieved film cassettes from the panoramic and mapping cameras and reported his personal observations of the general condition of equipment housed there. Apollo 15 concluded with a Pacific splashdown and subsequent recovery by the USS Okinawa. In completing his space flight, Worden logged 295 hours and 11 minutes in space.
- Planned to sell 100 commemorative first day covers taken to the moon to a German stamp dealer. The profits of the sale were used to establish trust funds for their children. Though technically not illegal none of the crew members ever flew another mission.
- Worden has been listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the "Most isolated human being" during his time alone in the command module Endeavour. When the orbiting command module was at its greatest distance from crew members Dave Scott and James Irwin in the "Falcon," Worden was 2,235 miles away from any other human beings.
- He was the Command Module Pilot when Dave Scott and James Irwin on Apollo 15 explored the canyon Hadley Rille for 2 1/2 days, being the first to use a vehicle (Lunar Rovign Vehicle or LRV) on the moon. Apollo 15 was an all Air Force flight since all three astronauts were from that branch of the service. The lunar module was called Falcon after the Air Force Academy mascot and the command module was designated Endeavour.
- Worden served as command module pilot for Apollo 15, July 26 - August 7, 1971. With his crew, he explored Hadley Rille and the Apennene Mountains on the Moon.
- Inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1997.
- He was one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon.
- He received a one-year scholarship to the University of Michigan, then applied to Annapolis and West Point. He chose the US Military Academy, graduating in 1955, but then joined the Air Force, believing it offered faster promotions than the Army. He piloted fighter jets stateside, then earned master's degrees in space science and engineering from Michigan in 1963. He became a test pilot and instructor, and joined NASA's astronaut corps in 1966.
- Worden was one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. He served as a member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 9 flight and as backup command module pilot for the Apollo 12 flight.
- He was a senior executive at NASA's Ames Research Center in California in the 1970s. After retiring from NASA and the Air Force, he held executive positions in the aerospace industry.
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