On April 16th 1972 Apollo 16 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a 12-day round trip to the moon.
Leading the crew was John Young and his colleagues Tom Mattingly and Charles Duke.
Apollo 16’s landing site was the central highlands of the moon, 19,000 feet higher than the flat Sea of Tranquility on which Neil Armstrong first landed. The astronauts took with them the lunar rover “moon car” that proved so successful on Apollo 15.
Duke, who piloted Apollo 16 is part of a tiny fraternity that is getting even smaller: People who have walked on the moon.
Duke, 86, visited his Apollo 16 capsule on Wednesday (20th April 2022) at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center to mark the 50th anniversary of his one and only trip to the lunar surface.
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