Career record
Flights
2
Launches with a definitive outcome — the Stats basis
Career time in space
7d 11h
Career EVA time
19h 14m
Spacewalks
0
Biography
James Benson "Jim" Irwin was an American astronaut, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and a United States Air Force pilot. He served as lunar module pilot for Apollo 15, the fourth human lunar landing. Following his retirement from NASA, he became a prominent born-again Christian. He was the eighth person to walk on the Moon and the first, and youngest, of those astronauts to die.
Biography from Launch Library 2.
Launches
- Apollo LM | Apollo 15 — Lunar Module Pilot · Success · August 2, 1971 · 17:11 UTC
- Saturn V | Apollo 15 — Lunar Module Pilot · Success · July 26, 1971
Born 1930-03-17 · died 1991-08-08