Editing Apollo 15 (section)

== Mission insignia ==
[[File:Apollo XV Vettes at NCM.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Chevrolet Corvette]]s driven by Scott (right) and Worden during the training for Apollo 15, photographed in 2019]]
The Apollo 15 [[mission patch]] carries Air Force motifs, a nod to the crew's service there, just as the Apollo 12 all-Navy crew's patch had featured a sailing ship. The circular patch features stylized red, white and blue birds flying over Hadley Rille. Immediately behind the birds, a line of craters forms the [[Roman numerals|Roman numeral]] XV. The Roman numerals were hidden in emphasized outlines of some craters after NASA insisted that the mission number be displayed in [[Arabic numerals]]. The artwork is circled in red, with a white band giving the mission and crew names and a blue border. Scott contacted fashion designer [[Emilio Pucci]] to design the patch, who came up with the basic idea of the three-bird motif on a square patch.<ref name = car />

[[File:Apollo 15 Flown Silver Robbins Medallion (SN-92).jpg|thumb|left|alt=Both sides of a silver "Robbins" medallion with the mission logo and dates of travel|Apollo 15 space-flown silver [[NASA space-flown Robbins medallions of the Apollo missions|Robbins medallion]]]]
The crew changed the shape to round and the colors from blues and greens to a patriotic red, white and blue. Worden stated that each bird also represented an astronaut, white being his own color (and as Command Module Pilot, uppermost), Scott being the blue bird and Irwin the red. The colors matched [[Chevrolet Corvette]]s leased by the astronauts at KSC;<ref name = car>[[#Worden & French|Worden & French 2011]], pp. 144–145</ref> a Florida car dealer had, since the time of [[Project Mercury]], been leasing Chevrolets to astronauts for $1 and later selling them to the public.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Boyle |first1=Rebecca |title=50 Years Ago, NASA Put a Car on the Moon |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/science/lunar-rover-apollo-nasa.html |access-date=30 July 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=27 July 2021}}</ref> The astronauts were photographed with the cars and the training LRV for the June 11, 1971, edition of [[Life (magazine)|''Life'']] magazine.<ref group=ALSJ name=image>{{cite web |url=https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/images15.html#Crew |title=Apollo 15 Map and Image Library |year=1996 |editor-last=Jones |editor-first=Eric M. |work=Apollo 15 Lunar Surface Journal |publisher=NASA |access-date=January 23, 2019}}</ref>