On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo program.
Three NASA astronauts were on board: John Young, the commander, Ken Mattingly, the command module pilot, and Charlie Duke, the lunar module pilot. They lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on a Saturn V rocket and spent three days cruising to the moon. After orbiting the moon for about a day, Young and Duke took the lunar module down to the surface while Ken Mattingly stayed behind in the command module. They landed in the lunar highlands to look for volcanic rocks, but they didn't find any. They collected plenty of other moon rocks, though, and they brought more than 200 pounds back to Earth.
Three NASA astronauts were on board: John Young, the commander, Ken Mattingly, the command module pilot, and Charlie Duke, the lunar module pilot. They lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on a Saturn V rocket and spent three days cruising to the moon. After orbiting the moon for about a day, Young and Duke took the lunar module down to the surface while Ken Mattingly stayed behind in the command module. They landed in the lunar highlands to look for volcanic rocks, but they didn't find any. They collected plenty of other moon rocks, though, and they brought more than 200 pounds back to Earth.
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00:00On this day in space. On April 16, 1972 Apollo 16 launched to the moon. Apollo 16 was NASA's
00:09fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo program. Three NASA astronauts
00:15were on board. John Young, the commander, Ken Mattingly, the command module pilot, and Charlie
00:20Duke, the lunar module pilot. They lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on a Saturn V rocket
00:25and spent three days cruising to the moon. After orbiting the moon for about a day, Young
00:30and Duke took the lunar module down to the lunar surface while Mattingly stayed behind
00:33in the command module. They landed in the lunar highlands to look for volcanic rocks, but they
00:38didn't find any. They collected plenty of other moon rocks, though, and they brought back more
00:43than 200 pounds to Earth. And that's what happened on this day in space.