Al Worden's personally-owned signed book: Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon. First edition. Atlanta, GA: Turner Publishing, 1994. Hardcover with dust jacket, 6.5 x 9.25, 383 pages. Playfully signed and inscribed on a bookplate affixed to the first free end page in black ballpoint, "To Al Worden, Is this true? Alan Shepard." Worden is referenced on page 323: "On July 26, 1971, Apollo 15 astronauts, Dave Scott, Jim Irwin, and Al Worden, flamed into the long journey moonward. Scott and Irwin rode their lander, Falcon, right to the foothills of the Apennine Mountains while Worden, overhead in Endeavour, began an intense photographic survey for future landing sites." In fine condition, with a few fingerprints to the bookplate.
From the collection of Apollo 15 CMP Al Worden, and accompanied by a letter of provenance from his daughter Alison (Worden) Penczak.
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