RocketSTEM Issue #12 - July 2015 | Page 23

Al Worden drew this quick sketch during the interview of where he was when he made his spacewalk on the return trajectory to Earth. Credit: Sherry Valare made it such a big thing to have walked on the Moon. And it was a big thing, I don’t want to take that away from them. “As Command Module Pilot, I had thousands of things to do. Taking pictures, doing visual observations, photographing the surface of the Moon, I had a mapping camera that I used to map about a quarter of the Moon. There were lots and lots of thing to do while in lunar orbit. But the media made it so much more important to have walked on the Moon. I d