the patch, who came up with the basic idea of the three-bird motif on a square patch. 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 Corvettes leased by the astronauts at KSC; 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. The astronauts were photographed with the cars and the training LRV for the June 11, 1971, edition of Life magazine. Visibility from space The halo area of the Apollo 15 landing site, created by the LM's exhaust plume, was observed by a camera aboard the Japanese lunar orbiter SELENE and confirmed by comparative analysis of photographs in May 2008. This corresponds well to photographs taken from the Apollo 15 command module showing a change in surface reflectivity due to the plume, and was the first visible trace of crewed landings on the Moon seen from space since the close of the Apollo program. Gallery Still images Multimedia See also List of artificial objects on the Moon List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999 Notes References Apollo Lunar Flight Journal Apollo Lunar Surface Journal Bibliography External links 1972 preliminary report by the Manned Spacecraft Center 1975 summary report by NASA 1972 NASA press releases at collectSPACE Moonport: A History of Apollo Launch Facilities and Operations, a 1978 book published by NASA Part 1 and part 2 of Apollo 15: In the Mountains of the Moon'', a NASA documentary film on the Apollo 15 mission, at the Internet Archive 2011 podcast interview with AstrotalkUK 2016 interview with Worden at Medium James Irwin David Scott Alfred Worden Articles containing video clips Apollo program missions Extravehicular activity Lunar rovers Crewed missions to the Moon Sample return missions Soft landings on the Moon Spacecraft which reentered in 1971 Spacecraft launched in 1971 June 1971 events Spacecraft launched by Saturn rockets 1971 on the Moon