Apollo 15 astronauts David R. Scott and James Irwin join NASA geologists William Phinney, James W. Head, and Gary Lofgren in observing lunar samples in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory.
At Station 9a near the edge of Hadley Rille, Dave Scott is leaning to his right, with his left foot off the ground, as he breaks a sample off one of the basalt boulders with the hammer. A detail shows that Dave has a strap-on pocket on each leg.
This video focuses on a nineteen minute portion of the Geology Station 2 part of EVA 1 (between 122:38 and 122:57) and condenses the events into a four minute video. Scott and Irwin examine a boulder that is covered in glass and has a linear fracture through one side.
Astronauts David R. Scott, left foreground, and James B. Irwin, right foreground, join the Manned Spacecraft Center's geologists in getting first looks at some of the first Apollo 15 samples to be opened in the Non-Sterile Nitrogen Processing Line in the MSC Lunar Receiving Laboratory (NASA).
David Scott inspects the "Genesis Rock" at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Johnson Space Center (known as the Manned Spacecraft Center at the time).
Creator
NASA
Source
NASA Image and Video Library
Date
August 12, 1971
Rights
Public Domain
Relation
Background on the Genesis Rock can be found here: https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/a15.spur.html