James Irwin

James Benson Irwin (March 17, 1930 – August 8, 1991) (Col USAF) was an American astronaut, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, United States Air Force pilot and a creationist. He served as Apollo Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15, the fourth human lunar landing. He was the eighth person to walk on the Moon and the first, and youngest, of those astronauts to die.

Expeditions to Mount Ararat
Beginning in 1973, Irwin led several expeditions to Mount Ararat, Turkey, in order to search for the remains of Noah's Ark. In 1982, he was injured during the descent and had to be transported down the mountain on horseback. In More Than Earthlings, Irwin wrote expressing his view that the Genesis creation narrative was real, literal history.