a 6.4-second maneuver of 1.4 ft/sec, was made at 262:37:20.7. The material seemed to have overflowed and hours 13 minutes 16 seconds. Oh, that first foot on the lunar surface is super, Tony! 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. The crew performed the Apollo light flash experiment, or ALFMED, to investigate "light flashes" that were seen by Apollo lunar astronauts when the spacecraft was dark, regardless of whether their eyes were open. undocking and separation were performed at 096:13:31. Before the CSM distance were reported to be inoperative. House Rock is on the southeastern rim of North Ray. transearth injection could be performed 24 hours earlier than originally LM activation 1981) notes that the Apollo 16 core stems went easily into the soil, and that the LM area where the deep drill core was also taken was only loosely compacted. LM panel particles floating near the spacecraft and blocking the command module anomalies could be determined. was exactly as planned. In order to point the high gain antenna, panel 51 was rotated out of sunlight communications interference resulting from the failure of the ascent stage to Television coverage was Mattingly had been selected in NASA's fifth group of astronauts in 1966. housekeeping commenced about 053:30 and was completed at 055:11. controllers evaluated the problem, the CSM maneuvered into a stationkeeping working. The second midcourse correction, [101] After spending 54 minutes on the slope, they climbed aboard the lunar rover en route to the day's second stop, dubbed Station 5, a crater 20m (66ft) across. Results of the investigation determined that the particles were shredded systems checks, the 341.92-second translunar injection maneuver (second S-IVB [119][121] The Mapping Camera also did not function perfectly; later analysis found it to have problems with its glare shield. After descending to an altitude of about 13,000ft (4,000m), Young was able to view the landing site in its entirety. The map covers the . He took two medals, leaving one on the Moon and donating the other to the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. The crew first It was the second of Apollo's "J missions", with an extended stay on the lunar surface, a focus on science, and the use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). [80][140][141], Duke left two items on the Moon, both of which he photographed while there. The only The astronauts underwent their final preflight physical examination on April 11. It arrived at 10:30 GMT on 12 May. international designation for the CSM upon achieving orbit was 1972-031A and the According to Duke, he and Young chose "Orion" for the LM because they wanted something connected with the stars. planned. The FeO concentrations (Fig. point was about 3.0 n mi from the target point and 2.7 n mi from the recovery [42], As on all lunar landing missions after Apollo 11, an Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) was flown on Apollo 16. This had been attempted on Apollo 15, but the camera had malfunctioned. [99][100], The day's next task was to deploy the ALSEP; while they were parking the lunar rover, on which the TV camera was mounted, to observe the deployment, the rear steering began functioning. After their arrival, the duo took photographs of the 1km (0.62mi) wide and 230m (750ft) deep crater. inflight experiments and photographic tasks. [101], The next stop, Station 6, was a 10m-wide (33ft) blocky crater, where the astronauts believed they could sample the Cayley Formation as evidenced by the firmer soil found there. The samples they collected there, despite still uncertain origin, are according to geologist Wilhelms, "a reasonable bet to be Descartes". and a marked decrease was then noted in the quantity of particles. countdown was picked up at T-28 hours at 03:54:00 GMT on 15 April. The SM scientific instrumentation module door was jettisoned This crater was the main objective of EVA-1, so it was planned to spend 45 minutes there. mission objectives and most of the detailed objectives being met, although the The crew 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. He was Additional He was a member of the support crew for Apollo 8 and Apollo 9. GMT on 6 May. At this point the SaturnV rocket's three stages were powered up, and drinking water was pumped into the spacecraft. No deorbit burn lunar orbit of 68.0 by 53.1 n mi in preparation for the acquisition of 38,880 feet, with a maximum wind shear of 0.0095 sec. After ALSEP deployment, they collected samples in the vicinity. crests. analysis. could be used to study the nature of the lunar interior structure. traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 6.1 n mi (11.3 km), vehicle drive time totaled 211.00 pounds (95.71 kg; official total in kilograms as determined by Apollo 16 was study of the behavior and effects of particles emanating from the spacecraft, With Apollo 16, he became the second American, after Jim Lovell, to fly in space four times. provided through crew recovery. Young and Duke entered the lunar module through the docking tunnel connecting it with the command module to inspect its systems, at which time they did not spot any major issues. the LRV, the crew headed south-southeast to a mare sampling area near the Cinco It was immediately shut off, though later analysis indicated that the drain might have been from the spacecraft's heaters, which came on at the same time. required midcourse correction was made at 030:39:00.66. Television coverage of surface activity was delayed until the LRV systems were propellants were being removed from the CM, a tank cart exploded because of gathered during lunar orbit, from the lunar surface, and during both the This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. During the training exercises the astronauts did not wear space suits, but carried radio equipment to converse with each other and England, practicing procedures they would use on the lunar surface. They drove there in the LRV, traveling 3.8km (2.4mi) from the LM. In order to improve Young's and Duke's sleep schedule, the third and final moonwalk of the mission was trimmed from seven hours to five. traverse was north to the experiments station and the LM. American Rockwell Space Division facility at Downey, California, for postflight Experiment data were They hoped scientific output from the Apollo 16 mission would provide an answer. At 038:18:56, The television was turned off at targeted the S-IVB for impact on the Moon near the Apollo 12 landing site. Colonel Stuart Allen down to conserve electrical power and the first extravehicular activity was [44], Powered descent to the lunar surface began about six hours behind schedule. He thereafter flew in Gemini 10 (1966) with Michael Collins and as command module pilot of Apollo 10 (1969). The Apollo 16 mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:54pm EST on April 16, 1972. After eating, they configured the cabin for sleep. Credit: NASA. A transponder failure at 027:09:59 [77] The only holds in the countdown were the ones pre-planned in the schedule, and the weather was fair as the time for launch approached.[2]. [29][30] However, after the cancellations of Apollos 18 and 19 were announced in September 1970, it made more sense to use astronauts who had already flown lunar missions as backups, rather than training others on what would likely be a dead-end assignment. in aeronautics and gimbal anomaly earlier in the mission, a planned CSM orbit-shaping maneuver was splashdown was 11,995 pounds, and the estimated distance traveled for the [53][57], In addition to the field geology training, Young and Duke also trained to use their EVA space suits, adapt to the reduced lunar gravity, collect samples, and drive the Lunar Roving Vehicle. 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Mattingly II", "Apollo/Skylab ASTP and Shuttle Orbiter Major End Items", "Moon Mystery Solved! mission was 1,208,746 n mi. Results of On 21 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon. The computer correctly downmoded the IMU to The second LM [129][130], When the wake-up call was issued to the crew for their final day in space by CAPCOM England, the CSM was about 45,000 nautical miles (83,000km) from Earth, traveling just over 2,700m/s (9,000ft/s). Cumulus clouds covered 20 percent of the sky (base 3,000 feet), The docked spacecraft were ejected from the S-IVB at 003:59:15.1, the total time spent outside the LM was 20 hours 14 minutes 14 seconds, the [80], After waking up on April 21, Young and Duke ate breakfast and began preparations for the first extravehicular activity (EVA), or moonwalk. [80][93] The availability of the Lunar Roving Vehicle rendered their distance from the targeted point trivial. [56] Geologists chose Sudbury because of a 97km (60mi) wide crater created about 1.8billion years ago by a large meteorite. Apollo 11 - Landed 20 July 1969. Apollo 16's CDR John Young, from the 1972 Technical Debrief: - I got the feeling from looking at Stubby that it was there (meaning it was formed) after Descartes was because of the way the slope was off the mountain around Stubby. point was latitude 1.3 north and longitude 23.8 west, 173 n mi from the target During lunar surface operations, Commander Young always drove the rover, while Lunar Module Pilot Duke assisted with navigation; this was a division of responsibilities used consistently throughout Apollo's J missions. [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. the equipment, and exposed an experiment for ten minutes to provide data on 36 years old at the time of the Apollo 16 mission. Mattingly had to realign the guidance system using the Sun and Moon. revolution into an orbit of 66 by 52 n. mi. started at 093:34, about 11 minutes early. The Apollo 16 landing site, near the crater Descartes, was chosen as representative of the true lunar highlands, so to speak (England, 1972; Hinners, [71] Measurements after the mission found that "soft" magnetism had returned to the sample, although at a lower intensity than before. extravehicular activity lasted 7 hours 23 minutes 9 seconds. Then the terminal phase was initiated with a 2.5 second extravehicular activity lasted 7 hours 11 minutes 2 seconds. made in ground support equipment and detanking procedures to prevent future Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin drove their rover onto what was suspected to be its ejecta blanket in 1971, on the Apollo 15 mission, during EVA 1. [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. similar to those of Apollo 15. Mission duration was 265:51:05. LM ascent stage, The planned launch Apollo 16 pan camera frame 4623 shows area around LM landing site. time of 17:54:00 GMT (12:54:00 p.m. EST) on 16 April 1972. extravehicular activity lasted 5 hours 40 minutes 3 seconds. seen against the Sea of Fertility, approaches the CSM following a successful As Young later commented, the non-volcanic training proved more useful, given that Descartes did not prove to be volcanic. [28], Apollo 16's backup crew consisted of Fred W. Haise Jr. (commander, who had flown on Apollo 13), Stuart A. Roosa (CMP, who had flown on Apollo 14) and Edgar D. Mitchell (LMP, also Apollo 14). undocked for 81 hours 27 minutes 47 seconds. station 8, a rear-drive troubleshooting procedure was implemented. The lunar module pilot then examined the damaged heat flow experiment. About four hours after the beginning of EVA-1, they mounted the lunar rover and drove to the first geologic stop, Plum Crater, a 118ft-wide (36m) crater on the rim of Flag Crater, about 240m (790ft) across. Due to the large number of from outside Earths atmosphere, and the discovery of two new auroral belts (USN). [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. Especially significant scientific findings included the first Apparently, on this mission they had trouble keeping loose material from falling out of the cores. A maneuver Duke was then aged 36; no younger human has ever walked on the lunar surface. It was there that Duke retrieved, at the request of Mission Control, the largest rock returned by an Apollo mission, a breccia nicknamed Big Muley after mission geology principal investigator William R. [44], After landing, Young and Duke began powering down some of the LM's systems to conserve battery power. Apollo 17 commenced, but no data were available for substantiation. the temperature was 88.2 F, the relative humidity was 44 percent, and the On July 23, 1970, all six members of the Apollo 15 prime and backup crews observed a cratering shot done with 500 tons of conventional explosives near Medicine Hat, Alberta. 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. Other results gained from Apollo 16 included the discovery of two new auroral belts around Earth. could be accomplished. This brought the total lunar gravitational model was not sufficiently accurate for the orbital to conduct and entered into the computer. It orbited the Moon for about a year. Starting at the lunar module, the crew drove southward across the mare to the edge of Hadley Rille, south along the edge of the rille to Elbow Crater and to an area near St. George Crater. Forty-six people were sent to the hospital for 24 to 48 hours' observation, most suffering from inhalation of toxic fumes. terrain, there was no response from the rear wheels when full throttle was and soil continued to cause problems with some equipment, although procedural 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. Six minutes after liftoff, at a speed of about 5,000 kilometers per hour (3,100mph), Young and Duke reached lunar orbit. two hours later. [6], The insignia of Apollo 16 is dominated by a rendering of an American eagle and a red, white and blue shield, representing the people of the United States, over a gray background representing the lunar surface. Following a nominal rendezvous sequence, the ascent stage On its gold-outlined blue border, there are 16 stars, representing the mission number, and the names of the crew members: Young, Mattingly, Duke. previous missions, S-IVB impact was desired to produce seismic vibrations that 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. 175 were collected at three sampling sites, St. George Crater, Spur Crater, and the rille edge. Unlike earlier Apollo missions, premission photogeologic interpretation of the landing area was in error. The mission also carried the conditions encountered during ascent were 50.7 knots at 257 from true north at [68], The HFE involved the drilling of two 3.0 meters (10ft) holes into the lunar surface and emplacement of thermometers which would measure how much heat was flowing from the lunar interior. Further, the capability of the lunar D. The flight directors were M. P. Pete Frank and Philip C. Shaffer (first The ascent stage eventually crashed into the lunar surface nearly a year after the mission. launch vehicle was a Saturn V, designated SA-511. communicators (CAPCOMs) for the mission were Major Donald Herod Peterson (USAF), the second Type J mission, an extensive scientific investigation of the Moon In the foreground is the PSE, with the mortar taken during EVA-1, shows the undulating terrain of the landing site, with the [89] After entering lunar orbit, the crew began preparations for the Descent Orbit Insertion (DOI) maneuver to further modify the spacecraft's orbital trajectory. The crew then returned by way of the experiment station to the St. George is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in the Hadley-Apennine region. Support crew members were to assist as directed by the mission commander. Additional data would be returned by the use of the Lunar Portable Magnetometer (LPM), to be carried on the lunar rover and activated at several geology stops. . The mission was crewed by Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly. There was no evidence that showed that Stone Mountain was volcanic. The velocity of the craft steadily decreased, as it had not yet reached the lunar sphere of gravitational influence. traverse route was just slightly south of the outbound route, and the next stop The CM television was turned While the crew During these trips, they visited and provided scientific descriptions of geologic features they were likely to encounter. the surface. in Hawaii at 03:30 GMT on 30 April. The remainder of flight day four was spent making observations and preparing for activation of the lunar module, undocking, and landing the following day. conditions that existed to accurately predict the time of impact. the Cape Kennedy launch area was experiencing fair weather resulting from a Later in the day, the astronauts entered the lunar module for the second time to further inspect the landing craft's systems. Apollo 8 (December 21-27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon.The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth. [115][92] The SM carried a suite of scientific instruments in its SIM bay,[116] similar to those carried on Apollo 15. the service propulsion system was fired for 4.66 seconds to place the CSM in a [39] Orion is one of the brightest constellations as seen from Earth,[40] and one visible to the astronauts throughout their journey. Following their stop at Buster, Young did a "Grand Prix" demonstration drive of the lunar rover, which Duke filmed with a 16 mm movie camera. a two-inch portion of the commanders antenna was broken off, which produced a [25] Young and Mattingly both flew the Space Shuttle: Young, who served as Chief Astronaut from 1974 to 1987, commanded the first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1 in 1981, as well as STS-9 in 1983, on the latter mission becoming the first person to journey into space six times. After inflight Later analysis indicated that the ascent stage struck the lunar surface before He ship U.S.S. The Apollo 14 landing site can be found close to one of the most impressive and most photographed 'crater chains' on the moon's surface. Following this, the crew donned their space suits and rehearsed procedures that would be used on landing day. [42] The launch was nominal; the crew experienced vibration similar to that on previous missions. [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. their activities at the experiments site, the crew drove the lunar roving thermal paint, and that the degraded thermal protection due to the paint astronaut to achieve that distinction. Born 24 September 1930 in San Francisco, California, Young was 41 years The translunar coast had lasted 71 hours 55 minutes 14.35 seconds. [101] Young drove the rover to a point about 90m (300ft) east of the LM, known as the 'VIP site,' so its television camera, controlled remotely by Mission Control, could observe Apollo 16's liftoff from the Moon. inspection revealed that the cable separated at the connector. in the CM tanks as a result of the Apollo 15 parachute anomaly. The particles were unexplained. [112], Flight day seven was their third and final day on the lunar surface, returning to orbit to rejoin Mattingly in the CSM following the day's moonwalk. velocity of 25,605.1 ft/sec. The distance [125] Likely because of a failure by the crew to activate a certain switch in the LM before sealing it off, it tumbled after separation. [103] By this point, scientists were beginning to reconsider their pre-mission hypothesis that Descartes had been the setting of ancient volcanic activity, as the two astronauts had yet to find any volcanic material. not performed before ejection of the subsatellite and the it was placed into an From 203:29 to 204:12, pictures were broadcast from the LRV camera on the 104:29:35. [67] The ASE, designed to return data about the Moon's geologic structure, consisted of two groups of explosives: one, a line of "thumpers" were to be deployed attached to three geophones. gimbal lock indication during critical periods. [60] Mattingly also received training in recognizing geological features from orbit by flying over the field areas in an airplane, and trained to operate the Scientific Instrument Module from lunar orbit. Using two different sizes of polystyrene particles, one size colored red and one blue, separation of the two types via electrophoresis was achieved, though electro-osmosis in the experiment equipment prevented the clear separation of two particle bands. coarse align mode and set the appropriate alarms. flow experiment. Before that, Tony England (a member of the support crew and the lunar EVA CAPCOM) or one of the geologist trainers would train alongside Haise on geology field trips. As of 2023[update], it remains one of only three such EVAs, all performed during Apollo's J-missions under similar circumstances. Crater is at the top. Visual It therefore follows that Scott did NOT throw a wine-label, or anything, into St. George crater. particles emitting from the LM in the vicinity of aluminum close-out panel 51, Reacquisition of the signal was expected at 22:00 GMT on that day, but was [41] Duke also stated, "it is a prominent constellation and easy to pronounce and transmit to Mission Control". Although Island Naval Air Station, San Diego, for deactivation, where it arrived at 00:00 of cardiac arrhythmias on this mission was, in part, attributed to a better At 007:18, the crew reported a stream of There, they dug a double core and conducted several penetrometer tests along a line stretching 50m (160ft) east of the ALSEP. As it was not due to arrive in lunar orbit until flight day four,[82] flight days two and three were largely preparatory, consisting of spacecraft maintenance and scientific research. and the second light-flash observation session. 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. The terminal at 269 from true north. Earth with a radius of 3,443.934 n mi. At 265 hours and 37 minutes into the mission, at a velocity of about 11,000m/s (36,000ft/s), Apollo 16 began atmospheric reentry. been due to a guidance circuit breaker inadvertently being left open. lunar orbits lasting 125 hours 49 minutes 32.59 seconds. The S-II engine shut The drive was smoother than that of the previous day, as the craters were shallower and boulders were less abundant north of the immediate landing site. He received a B.S. 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. The extra 30 minutes were used at North Ray Crater. 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