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TURIN
According to Wikipedia, Apollo 10 LM crew, Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan got to within 8.4 miles of the surface..
They did but at one point prior to LM separation according to the records the Apollo 15 combined vehicle was in an orbit with a calculated perilune of 7.6
nautical miles above the (mean) surface so there’s no much in it and unlike Apollo 10, where the perilune was over flat terrain (Sea of Tranquility),the Apollo 15 vehicles perilune was proximate to some very significant mountains…
I’ll guess in reality 50 years down the road we’ll never know who gets the bragging rights, but Worden certainly has a valid shout at being the man who got closest to the Lunar surface without landing…