The vehicles and payload were
on the lunar surface for 71 hours 2 minutes 13 seconds. This issue, in combination with concerns that one of the explosive cords that would jettison the LM from the CSM after the astronauts returned from the lunar surface would not work properly, and a problem with Duke's spacesuit, made it desirable to slip the launch to the next launch window. activities during transearth coast included photography for a Skylab program
At 005:40:07.2,
Television coverage was
previous missions, S-IVB impact was desired to produce seismic vibrations that
launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39, Pad A, at a Range Zero
After descending to an altitude of about 13,000ft (4,000m), Young was able to view the landing site in its entirety. They entered the LM for activation and checkout of the spacecraft's systems. The landing and exploration were in the Descartes Highlands, a site chosen because some scientists expected it to be an area formed by volcanic action, though this proved to not be the case. [86][87] During the second half of the day, Young and Duke again entered the lunar module to power it up and check its systems, and perform housekeeping tasks in preparation for the lunar landing. [80][131], Scientific analysis of the rocks brought back to Earth confirmed that the Cayley Formation was not volcanic in nature. Two minutes before launch, they activated the "Master Arm" switch and then the "Abort Stage" button, causing small explosive charges to sever the ascent stage from the descent stage, with cables connecting the two severed by a guillotine-like mechanism. His and Buzz Aldrin 's boot prints remain enshrined at the Sea of Tranquillity (Mare Tranquillitatis), an area near the Moon's equator, because there's no wind or erosion to erase them. "[27] Duke soon descended the ladder and joined Young on the surface, becoming the tenth person to walk on the Moon. In addition to numerous housekeeping tasks, the astronauts prepared the spacecraft for its atmospheric reentry the next day. Ken Mattingly, II (USN), command module pilot; and Lt. Approximately ten minutes before reentry into Earth's atmosphere, the cone-shaped command module containing the three crewmembers separated from the service module, which would burn up during reentry. Loss of all tracking and telemetry data occurred at 20:31 GMT on May 29,
Then, on May 19-21, 1971, Dave, Jim, Dick Gordon, Jack Schmitt and USGS cratering expert David Roddy made a visit to NTS to get more field experience.] The spacecraft
central Florida. Loss of the
000:00:12.7 and 000:00:31.8, the vehicle rolled from a launch pad azimuth of 90
Apollo 16 launched on April 16, 1972, and landed at the Descartes highlands, a. The return route was past Elbow Crater and directly across the mare to the lunar module. This is his t. Later in the day, the astronauts entered the lunar module for the second time to further inspect the landing craft's systems. a 54.2-second propulsive force from the S-IVB auxiliary propulsion system
The remainder of flight day four was spent making observations and preparing for activation of the lunar module, undocking, and landing the following day. . vehicle (LRV-2) west to Flag Crater where they made visual observations,
Apollo 16 (April 1627, 1972) was the tenth crewed mission in the United States Apollo space program, administered by NASA, and the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon. was accomplished as planned. Apollo 16 is gonna change your image. applied. After returning to the LM to wrap up the second lunar excursion, they climbed back inside the landing craft's cabin, sealing and pressurizing the interior after 7hours, 23 minutes, and 26 seconds of EVA time, breaking a record that had been set on Apollo 15. [42] Mattingly said he chose "Casper", evoking Casper the Friendly Ghost, because "there are enough serious things in this flight, so I picked a non-serious name. While ascending ridges and traversing very rocky
international designation for the CSM upon achieving orbit was 1972-031A and the
prior to the mission was demonstrated. After completing
This was a suite of nuclear-powered experiments designed to keep functioning after the astronauts who set them up returned to Earth. Just under five hours after the subsatellite release, on the CSM's 65th orbit around the Moon, its service propulsion system main engine was reignited to propel the craft on a trajectory that would return it to Earth. would be designated 1972-031C, the descent stage 1972-031E, and the particles
capability of the S-band omni-directional antenna system to support the
Support crew members were to assist as directed by the mission commander. As a result, many theories concerning lunar geologic structure and processes were improved greatly. He received a B.S. There also remained the distinct possibility that this objective would have already been satisfied by the Apollo 14 and Apollo 15 missions, as the Apollo 14 samples had not yet been completely analyzed and samples from Apollo 15 had not yet been obtained. [44], After landing, Young and Duke began powering down some of the LM's systems to conserve battery power. transearth injection could be performed 24 hours earlier than originally
point was about 3.0 n mi from the target point and 2.7 n mi from the recovery
[96][97] After the pair donned and pressurized their space suits and depressurized the lunar module cabin, Young climbed out onto the "porch" of the LM, a small platform above the ladder. undocking and separation were performed at 096:13:31. This image does not show Aldrin, but rather Charles M. Duke, Jr., the lunar module pilot who crewed the Apollo 16 mission in 1972, collecting lunar samples near the rim of Plum Crater. roving vehicle to operate under these conditions and on slopes up to 20 was
One of the bladders for the CM's reaction control system burst during testing. The astronauts underwent their final preflight physical examination on April 11. Then the terminal phase was initiated with a 2.5 second
The SPS engine performed the burn flawlessly despite the malfunction that had delayed their landing several days previously. Becoming an astronaut in 1962 as part of the second group to be selected by NASA, he flew in Gemini 3 with Gus Grissom in 1965, becoming the first American not of the Mercury Seven to fly in space. checks were normal. was on the surface, the command module pilot had obtained photographs, measured
crew consisted of Peterson, England, Hartsfield, and Phillip Kenyon Chapman, Sc. communicators (CAPCOMs) for the mission were Major Donald Herod Peterson (USAF),
After flying the lunar module to the Moon's surface on April 21, Young and Duke spent 71 hoursjust under three dayson the lunar surface, during which they conducted three extravehicular activities or moonwalks, totaling 20 hours and 14 minutes. Duke was then aged 36; no younger human has ever walked on the lunar surface. the flashes left no after-glow, were instantaneous, and were white. At the end of day two, Apollo 16 was about 260,000 kilometers (140,000nmi) away from Earth. Forty-six people were sent to the hospital for 24 to 48 hours' observation, most suffering from inhalation of toxic fumes. pack at the left (NASA AS16-113-18359). On Monday, May 8, ground service equipment being used to empty the residual toxic reaction control system fuel in the command module tanks exploded in a Naval Air Station hangar. We have mapped crater rims as well-defined . The Apollo 16 landing site, near the crater Descartes, was chosen as representative of the true lunar highlands, so to speak (England, 1972; Hinners, extravehicular activity for the mission to 22 hours 17 minutes 36 seconds. During this
system effected splashdown of the CM in the Pacific Ocean at 19:45:05 GMT
Several LRV
While on the
The 427.8-second
[108][109] The second lunar excursion's primary objective was to visit Stone Mountain to climb up the slope of about 20 degrees to reach a cluster of five craters known as "Cinco craters". The crew then returned by way of the experiment station to the
communications interference resulting from the failure of the ascent stage to
[119][123], Eight minutes before the planned departure from the lunar surface, CAPCOM James Irwin notified Young and Duke from Mission Control that they were go for liftoff. Results of the investigation determined that the particles were shredded
However, it is estimated
position in 4 minutes 25 seconds by the inflatable bag uprighting system. Deactivation was completed at 00:00 GMT on 11 May. GMT on 6 May. Hadley Delta near St. George crater. Cumulus clouds covered 20 percent of the sky (base 3,000 feet),
003:21:53.4. 009:06. He was a member of the support crew for Apollo 8 and Apollo 9. [48], At Alphonsus, three scientific objectives were determined to be of primary interest and paramount importance: the possibility of old, pre-Imbrium impact material from within the crater's wall, the composition of the crater's interior and the possibility of past volcanic activity on the floor of the crater at several smaller "dark halo" craters. The particles were unexplained. [142], In 2006, shortly after Hurricane Ernesto affected Bath, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Kevin Schanze discovered a piece of metal debris on the ground near his beach home. Palmetto
Muehlberger. [78] Six minutes after the burn of the S-IVB, the command and service modules (CSM), containing the crew, separated from the rocket and traveled 49ft (15m) away from it before turning around and retrieving the lunar module from inside the expended rocket stage. terrain of a lunar highlands region without having high resolution photography
was maneuvered from lunar orbit, a particles and fields subsatellite similar to
At Station 9, an area known as the "Vacant Lot",[110] which was believed to be free of ejecta from South Ray, they spent about 40 minutes gathering samples. gimbal anomaly earlier in the mission, a planned CSM orbit-shaping maneuver was
American Rockwell Space Division facility at Downey, California, for postflight
The next day, NASA astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke separated their Lunar Module (LM) Orion from Thomas K. "Ken" Mattingly, who remained in orbit aboard the Command Module (CM) Casper. problem. Commander Thomas Kenneth
arrived at station 10 (LM and ALSEP area), the surface activity was extended
The CSM was designated CSM-113, and had
Parking orbit
The systems were found to be functioning as expected. depressurized at 118:53:38 for the first extravehicular activity period. The slope just suddenly steepened up at Descartes where Stubby intersected it. They reentered the LM 7hours, 6minutes, and 56 seconds after the start of the EVA. 36 years old at the time of the Apollo 16 mission. delayed in order to provide the crew with a well-deserved sleep period. [20][21], Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly, the command module pilot, was 36 years old and a lieutenant commander in the Navy at the time of Apollo 16. lunar orbit of 68.0 by 53.1 n mi in preparation for the acquisition of
Duke, Jr. (USAF), lunar module pilot. Linear Features. Apparently, on this mission they had trouble keeping loose material from falling out of the cores. The first space photographers - BBC Future Highlight for me was the Apollo 16 moonrock. Ultraviolet photography of the Earth from 58,000 and 117,000 n mi
Apollo 15 mare basalts with terrestrial and other lunar samples is given in Figs. The winds at 530 feet above the launch site measured
total distance traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 14.5 n mi (26.9 km),
was made at 195:03:13 to separate the CSM from the ascent stage. Cumulus clouds covered 20 percent of the sky (base 3,000 feet),
St. George is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in the Hadley-Apennine region. continued on a revised time line. Island Naval Air Station, San Diego, for deactivation, where it arrived at 00:00
photographed items of interest, and collected lunar samples. The crew members
features in a preselected area of the Descartes region; to emplace
Throttle-down of the LM's landing engine occurred on time, and the spacecraft tilted forward to its landing orientation at an altitude of 7,200ft (2,200m). Ignition of the
It arrived at 10:30 GMT on 12 May. "[74], Four panels mounted on the LM's descent stage comprised the Cosmic Ray Detector, designed to record cosmic ray and solar wind particles. Upon arriving at the rim of North Ray crater, they were 4.4km (2.7mi) away from the LM. They arrived at a 3m (9.8ft) high boulder, which they called "Shadow Rock". They drove there in the LRV, traveling 3.8km (2.4mi) from the LM. [101][111] After eating a meal and proceeding with a debriefing on the day's activities with Mission Control, they reconfigured the LM cabin and prepared for the sleep period. drove to the rim of North Ray Crater where photographs were taken and samples
A hole was blown in the hangar roof 250 feet above; about 40 windows in the hangar were shattered. Colonel Charles Moss
used to validate findings from the Apollo 15 mission. Duke was making
The program would allow the computer to ignore
On its gold-outlined blue border, there are 16 stars, representing the mission number, and the names of the crew members: Young, Mattingly, Duke. ship U.S.S. the lunar surface of 11.9. caused loss of S-IVB telemetry and prevented determination of a precise impact
Roosa, Mitchell, Major Henry Warren Hartsfield, Jr. (USAF), Anthony Wayne Tony
demonstrated. Earth with a radius of 3,443.934 n mi. [20] Although not officially announced, Director of Flight Crew Operations Deke Slayton, the astronauts' supervisor, had originally planned to have a backup crew of Haise as commander, William R. Pogue (CMP) and Gerald P. Carr (LMP), who were targeted for the prime crew assignment on Apollo 19. They then settled down for their first meal on the surface. [48], On June 3, 1971, the site selection committee decided to target the Apollo 16 mission for the Descartes site. Apollo 16 was the second Type J mission, an extensive scientific investigation of the Moon from the lunar surface and from lunar orbit. The burn to alter the CSM's orbit to that desired for the subsatellite had been cancelled; as a result, the subsatellite lasted just over a month in orbit, far less than its anticipated one year. [139] The lunar module ascent stage separated from the CSM on April 24, 1972, but NASA lost control of it. After preparing
holds were initiated at T-9 hours for 9 hours and at T-3 hours 30 minutes for
comprehensive deep space measurements, providing scientific data that could be
The ability
about 20 minutes because the crews consumables usage was lower than predicted. However it was not attempted because the time required
It was these formations that the scientific community widely suspected were formed by lunar volcanism, but this hypothesis was proven incorrect by the composition of lunar samples from the mission. lunar surface. in aeronautics and
The crater
experiments except subsatellite tracking for autonomous navigation and the heat
He had been pilot of Gemini 3 command
Apollo 16 lifted off at 12:54 p.m. EST April 16, 1972, from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. terrain, there was no response from the rear wheels when full throttle was
It was scheduled to be released during the 73rd
Apollo 16 was originally scheduled to launch on March 17, 1972. the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston). No deorbit burn
troubleshooting a model of the experiment at mission control indicated a fix
as a black spot, with white streaking from the descent engine plume. [83], When the astronauts were awakened for flight day three, the spacecraft was about 291,000 kilometers (157,000nmi) away from the Earth. jettisoned at 195:23:12. After splashdown, the CM assumed an apex-down
had been removed from the Apollo 13 mission because of his susceptibility to
approximately one year. The estimated impact
television picture, the source of the particles appeared to be a growth of
The crew was
The four men had been selected to participate in the Apollo 14 mission that would be flown in 1971. [37] The insignia was designed from ideas originally submitted by the crew of the mission,[38] by Barbara Matelski of the graphics shop at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston. [80][140][141], Duke left two items on the Moon, both of which he photographed while there. transferred the samples, film, and equipment to the CSM, the ascent stage was
During
the LM and the cabin was repressurized at 126:04:40. Following a nominal rendezvous sequence, the ascent stage
At 18:00 GMT on 1 May, it departed for North
During these trips, they visited and provided scientific descriptions of geologic features they were likely to encounter. the command module pilot began a transearth coast EVA. were normal and the LM was powered down at 008:52. did apollo 16 visit st george crater. in Hawaii at 03:30 GMT on 30 April. at 269 from true north. The parachute
At 038:18:56,
[66] However, NASA lost control of the ascent stage after jettison, and this did not occur. [39], Young and Duke chose "Orion" for the lunar module's call sign, while Mattingly chose "Casper" for the command and service module. followed by S-IC/S-II separation, and S-II engine ignition. traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 2.3 n mi (4.2 km), vehicle drive time
15 to 18 db drop in signal strength. Although the Mass Spectrometer was able to operate effectively, it stuck near its fully deployed position prior to the burn that preceded rendezvous, and had to be jettisoned. Apollo 15 Exploration. This training helped Young and Duke, while on the Moon, quickly realize that the expected volcanic rocks were not there, even though the geologists in Mission Control initially did not believe them. I'm sure glad they got ol' Brer Rabbit, here, back in the briar patch where he belongs. The Apollo 15 Lunar Module . lunar surface expedition (AS16-122-19533). The LM cabin was
[55] By the end of the training, the field trips had become major exercises, involving up to eight astronauts and dozens of support personnel, attracting coverage from the media. in the CM tanks as a result of the Apollo 15 parachute anomaly. Color
and was required to ensure proper lunar orbit insertion. Apollo 16 (April 16-27, 1972) was the tenth crewed mission in the United States Apollo space program, administered by NASA, and the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon. [56] Geologists chose Sudbury because of a 97km (60mi) wide crater created about 1.8billion years ago by a large meteorite. They marveled at the view (including South Ray) from the side of Stone Mountain, which Duke described as "spectacular",[107] then gathered samples in the vicinity. grass-like particles at the base of the panel. From 203:29 to 204:12, pictures were broadcast from the LRV camera on the
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