INTERVIEW WITH ASTRONAUT JAMES IRWIN & HIS FAMILY 1966 NEWS FILM 86124

This short April 1966 film shows some interviews of James Irwin and people that were close to him, shortly after his acceptance to the Apollo program. It shows Irwin, his mother and father, and presumably his brother and a neighbor.

0:09 Houses on Chauncey Court Road, 0:25 a man, possibly a neighbor, speaking about James Irwin in an interview, 1:20 Irwin getting out of a fighter aircraft, 1:35 Irwin being interviewed, 2:45 Presumably Irwin’s brother speaking to the camera, 2:58 Irwin’s mother being interviewed, 3:19 Irwin’s father being interviewed

James Benson Irwin (March 17, 1930 – August 8, 1991) 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. He was the 8th person to walk on the Moon and the first, and youngest, of those astronauts to die.

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