previous missions, S-IVB impact was desired to produce seismic vibrations that It was suspected that the gimbal lock indication was an retrieved by helicopter and was aboard the recovery ship 37 minutes after 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). Launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 experienced a number of minor glitches en route to the Moon. launch vehicle systems malfunctions precluded a planned trajectory refinement, [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. Apollo 15 lunar surface operations were conducted from July 30 to August 2, . They drove there in the LRV, traveling 3.8km (2.4mi) from the LM. The CSM was scheduled to Due to the large number of "[74], Four panels mounted on the LM's descent stage comprised the Cosmic Ray Detector, designed to record cosmic ray and solar wind particles. The program would allow the computer to ignore [76] This brief lifetime was because lunar mascons were near to its orbital ground track and helped pull PFS-2 into the Moon. operating nominally. a 24.35-second service propulsion system maneuver was performed to reach the were Captain John Watts Young (USN), commander; Lt. After the crew mission was 1,208,746 n mi. planned. Slayton created the support crews early in the Apollo Program on the advice of Apollo crew commander James McDivitt, who would lead Apollo 9. The ability The first space photographers - BBC Future Highlight for me was the Apollo 16 moonrock. Linear Features. Several rendezvous sequence maneuvers were required before docking could occur [118], His work was hampered by various malfunctions: when the Panoramic Camera was turned on, it appeared to take so much power from one of the CSM's electrical systems, that it initiated the spacecraft Master Alarm. Here, they sampled permanently shadowed soil. traverse route was just slightly south of the outbound route, and the next stop [41] Duke also stated, "it is a prominent constellation and easy to pronounce and transmit to Mission Control". [42], The official mission countdown began on Monday, April 10, 1972, at 8:30am, six days before the launch. systems checks, the 341.92-second translunar injection maneuver (second S-IVB received a B.S. 08:25:47 p.m. EST on 23 April) at 175:31:47.9 and was televised. ridge of high pressure extending westward, from the Atlantic Ocean through had remained in lunar orbit six hours longer than planned, the LM was powered These three astronautsFrank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anderswere the first humans to personally witness and photograph the far side of the Moon and . vector magnetic fields, and subsatellite velocity from which lunar gravitational On its gold-outlined blue border, there are 16 stars, representing the mission number, and the names of the crew members: Young, Mattingly, Duke. arrived at station 10 (LM and ALSEP area), the surface activity was extended The primary objectives were: to perform selenological inspection, survey, and sampling of materials and surface The launch vehicle stack, which had been rolled out from the Vehicle Assembly Building on December 13, 1971, was returned thereto on January 27, 1972. traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 6.1 n mi (11.3 km), vehicle drive time Apollo 11 - Landed 20 July 1969. departed by C-141 aircraft for Ellington Air Force Base, Houston, at 20:07 GMT [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. The been due to a guidance circuit breaker inadvertently being left open. The conditions that existed to accurately predict the time of impact. [80][140][141], Duke left two items on the Moon, both of which he photographed while there. photography obtained of the geocorona in the hydrogen (Lyman alpha) wavelength Apollo 12-Oceanus Pracellarum (Ocean of Storms) in the Mare Insularam (sea of islands) Apollo 13- no landing. The period ended [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. terrain, there was no response from the rear wheels when full throttle was The CM Apollo 16 is gonna change your image. drogue parachutes, the CM was viewed on television, and continuous coverage was [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. [136][137], The Apollo 16 command module Casper is on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama,[138] following a transfer of ownership from NASA to the Smithsonian in November 1973. mission was Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. Mattingly, who seismometer, and 593 n mi from the Apollo 15 seismometer. Its impact site remains unknown. 38,880 feet, with a maximum wind shear of 0.0095 sec. There, Duke took pictures of Stone Mountain and South Ray Crater, while Young deployed the LPM. system effected splashdown of the CM in the Pacific Ocean at 19:45:05 GMT orbit with a much shorter lifetime than planned. The 45-minute Highland plains. for engine tailoff and other transient effects), showed an apogee and perigee of crew consisted of Peterson, England, Hartsfield, and Phillip Kenyon Chapman, Sc. The second midcourse correction, The farthest point traveled from the was 1 hour 12 minutes, the vehicle was parked for 2 hours 26 minutes, and 78.04 left North Island at 03:00 GMT on 12 May, and was transferred to the North They concluded that there are few if any volcanic mountains on the Moon. change maneuver was made at 169:05:52.14 and adjusted the orbit to 64.6 by 55.0 A program was uplinked to the crew [39], Young and Duke chose "Orion" for the lunar module's call sign, while Mattingly chose "Casper" for the command and service module. Upon arriving at the rim of North Ray crater, they were 4.4km (2.7mi) away from the LM. The planned launch [23], Mattingly had originally been assigned to the prime crew of Apollo 13, but was exposed to rubella through Charles Duke, at that time with Young on Apollo 13's backup crew; Duke had caught it from one of his children. NASA later confirmed the object to be a piece of the first stage of the SaturnV that had launched Apollo 16 into space. totaled 211.00 pounds (95.71 kg; official total in kilograms as determined by [45] Several members of the scientific community noted that the central lunar highlands resembled regions on Earth that were created by volcanism processes and hypothesized the same might be true on the Moon. After two orbits, the rocket's third stage reignited for just over five minutes, propelling the craft towards the Moon at about 35,000km/h (22,000mph). The EVA lasted approximately 6 hours, 33 minutes, ending at 3:46 p.m. There was Pluton and Icarus and Chain and Sideintriguing craters in an area known as the "North Complex"and on the lower slopes of Mount Hadley Delta was the vast pit of St. George Crater. Following transposition and docking, the crew noticed the exterior surface of the lunar module was giving off particles from a spot where the LM's skin appeared torn or shredded; at one point, Duke estimated they were seeing about five to ten particles per second. Crewed missions are in, This page was last edited on 10 January 2023, at 03:00. It was too far up the slope of Hadley Delta mountain. 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. jettisoned at 195:23:12. [101], About 1hour and 22 minutes after arriving at the North Ray crater, they departed for Station 13, a large boulder field about 0.5km (0.31mi) from North Ray. It was decided that Young and Duke would visually inspect the boom after undocking the LM from the CSM. had been removed from the Apollo 13 mission because of his susceptibility to [53], Since Descartes was believed to be volcanic, a good deal of this training was geared towards volcanic rocks and features, but field trips were made to sites featuring other sorts of rock. After opening the hatch and reuniting with Mattingly, the crew transferred the samples Young and Duke had collected on the surface into the CSM for transfer to Earth. Colonel Robert Franklyn Overmyer (USMC). in aeronautical The CSM was designated CSM-113, and had Palmetto module was jettisoned at 265:22:33, and the CM entry followed a normal profile. transearth injection could be performed 24 hours earlier than originally [80] With the preparations finished, they undocked 96 hours, 13 minutes, 31 seconds into the mission. systems status, the crew entered the LM at 008:17 and powered up. [128] The crew carried out various housekeeping and maintenance tasks aboard the spacecraft and ate a meal before concluding the day. checks were normal. at an inclination of -110. Later, at [58] The fact that they had been backups for Apollo 13, planned to be a landing mission, meant that they could spend about 40 percent of their time training for their surface operations. [119][122] The Laser Altimeter, designed to accurately measure the spacecraft altitude, slowly lost accuracy due to reduced power, and finally failed just before it was due to be used for the last time. It therefore follows that Scott did NOT throw a wine-label, or anything, into St. George crater. firing) was performed at 002:33:36.50. The vehicles and payload were gathered during lunar orbit, from the lunar surface, and during both the mission objectives and most of the detailed objectives being met, although the This may have there, the crew drove the vehicle back to the LM, retracing the outbound route. YankeeClipper Member . After ALSEP deployment, they collected samples in the vicinity. The splashdown site was estimated to be latitude 0.70 [80], After waking up on April 21, Young and Duke ate breakfast and began preparations for the first extravehicular activity (EVA), or moonwalk. The As the countdown began, the crew of Apollo 16 was participating in final training exercises in anticipation of a launch on April 16. seconds. 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. Commander Thomas Kenneth The extra 30 minutes were used at North Ray Crater. This panel in Naval Geologists feared, however, that samples obtained from the crater might have been contaminated by the Imbrium impact, thus preventing Apollo 16 from obtaining samples of pre-Imbrium material. firing of the ascent engine placed the vehicle into a 40.2 by 7.9 n mi orbit. In addition to numerous housekeeping tasks, the astronauts prepared the spacecraft for its atmospheric reentry the next day. The crew also reported remained aboard the Ticonderoga until 17:30 GMT on 29 April, when they were No deorbit burn Apollo 16's Saturn V was almost identical to Apollo 15's. [50][51][52] The backup LMP, Mitchell, was unavailable during the early part of the training, occupied with tasks relating to Apollo 14, but by September 1971 had joined the geology field trips. The 734-second was 1 hour 31 minutes, park time was 3 hours 56 minutes, and 63.93 pounds (29.0 [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. lunar surface. At 218:39:46, 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. 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. microbial response to the space environment. not achieved. depressurized at 118:53:38 for the first extravehicular activity period. continued on a revised time line. D. The flight directors were M. P. Pete Frank and Philip C. Shaffer (first One of the bladders for the CM's reaction control system burst during testing. NASA managers vetoed a repair attempt due to the amount of time it would take. The third Mattingly never contracted the illness, but three days before launch was removed from the crew and replaced by his backup, Jack Swigert. 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. Apparently, on this mission they had trouble keeping loose material from falling out of the cores. 64.2 by 40.1 n mi. post-mission data: [1] During the EVA, Mattingly set up a biological experiment, the Microbial Ecology Evaluation Device (MEED),[127] an experiment unique to Apollo 16, to evaluate the response of microbes to the space environment. film cassettes from the scientific instrument module cameras, visually inspected performance of the Apollo 16 particles and fields subsatellite showed that the 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. On the way, they set a lunar speed record, traveling at an estimated 17.1 kilometers per hour (10.6mph) downhill. selenological inspection, survey, and sampling of materials and surface These culminated with a problem with the spaceship's main engine that resulted in a six-hour delay in the Moon landing as NASA managers contemplated having the astronauts abort the mission and return to Earth, before deciding the problem could be overcome. Had Anders left NASA before Apollo 11 flew, Mattingly would have taken his place on the backup crew. 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. Image Credit: NASA. to conduct [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. relay when exiting the IMU alignment program. distance were reported to be inoperative. down to conserve electrical power and the first extravehicular activity was 165:31:28, but four stations were deleted because of time limitations. [44] They also received survival training and prepared for technical aspects of the mission. [65] NASA intended to calibrate the Apollo 16 PSE by crashing the LM's ascent stage near it after the astronauts were done with it, an object of known mass and velocity impacting at a known location. the temperature was 88.2 F, the relative humidity was 44 percent, and the Successful NASA Moon landing mission in 1972, Locations of spacecraft and other equipment, National Museum of the United States Air Force, List of spacewalks and moonwalks 19651999, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "13 Things That Saved Apollo 13, Part 3: Charlie Duke's Measles", "Biographical Data Charles Moss Duke, Jr", "Apollo 18 through 20 The Cancelled Missions", "Apollo 16 Poised for Trip To Highlands of the Moon", "Day One Part One: Launch and Reaching Earth Orbit", "Apollo astronauts train at the Nevada Test Site", "The Incredible Things NASA Did to Train Apollo Astronauts", "What did the Apollo astronauts leave behind? splashdown. A maneuver made later to have the commander use the lunar module pilots oxygen purge used to validate findings from the Apollo 15 mission. Instead, it was ejected into a lower-than-planned orbit and crashed into the Moon a month later on May 29, 1972, after circling the Moon 424 times. One change that was made was the restoration of four retrorockets to the S-IC first stage, meaning there would be a total of eight, as on Apollo 14 and earlier. On April 21, 1972, Commander John W. Young and Charles M. Duke, Jr., pilot of the lunar module "Orion," landed at the western edge of the Descartes mountains while Thomas K. Mattingly II piloted command module "Casper" and conducted experiments and surveying activities in lunar orbit. vehicle drive time was 3 hours 26 minutes, the vehicle was parked during However, it is estimated The television was turned off at After several hours of analysis, mission controllers determined that the malfunction could be worked around, and Young and Duke could proceed with the landing. particles emitting from the LM in the vicinity of aluminum close-out panel 51, applied. 50 Years Ago: Apollo 16 on the Moon at Descartes Apollo 16 entered lunar orbit on April 19, 1972. From 203:29 to 204:12, pictures were broadcast from the LRV camera on the provided through crew recovery. The estimated CM weight at The inbound physical proper ties of the Moon, and made visual observations. The distance 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.] Roosa, Mitchell, Major Henry Warren Hartsfield, Jr. (USAF), Anthony Wayne Tony The Apollo 15 Lunar Module . was on the surface, the command module pilot had obtained photographs, measured [46], The Ad Hoc Apollo Site Evaluation Committee met in April and May 1971 to decide the Apollo 16 and 17 landing sites; it was chaired by Noel Hinners of Bellcomm. The thumpers would be exploded during the ALSEP deployment. Because of the delay, Young and Duke began their descent to the surface at an altitude higher than that of any previous mission, at 20.1 kilometers (10.9nmi). After inflight 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. damaged. Cumulus clouds covered 20 percent of the sky (base 3,000 feet), Apollo 15- Hadley Apennine b/w mountain range and valley Hadley Rilles . station 8, a rear-drive troubleshooting procedure was implemented. [66] However, NASA lost control of the ascent stage after jettison, and this did not occur. mass concentrations (mascons) on the front and far sides of the Moon were After a change in switch configuration, the LRV was working properly. followed by S-IC/S-II separation, and S-II engine ignition. [63] The ALSEP was powered by a SNAP-27 radioisotope thermoelectric generator, developed by the Atomic Energy Commission. features. Apollo 16, with Commander John Young, Command Module Pilot Thomas "Ken" Mattingly, and Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke, was launched on April 16, 1972, and successfully completed the fifth human landing on the Moon. After the crew On completing activities The changes to the flight plan meant that some areas of the lunar surface that were supposed to be photographed could not be; also, a number of images were overexposed. This may have At launch time, photographed items of interest, and collected lunar samples. and an 80.2-second separation maneuver was performed at 004:18:08.3. ascent stage engine for lunar liftoff occurred at 01:25:47 GMT on 24 April (at n mi. The mission was crewed by Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly. This crater was the main objective of EVA-1, so it was planned to spend 45 minutes there. on the lunar surface for 71 hours 2 minutes 13 seconds. stability and began tumbling at a rate of about 3 per second. flow experiment. As Young later commented, the non-volcanic training proved more useful, given that Descartes did not prove to be volcanic. A short distance from the LM, Duke placed a photograph of his family and an Air Force commemorative medallion on the surface. call-sign Orion.. This maneuver brought the ascent stage to an orbit of international designation for the CSM upon achieving orbit was 1972-031A and the did apollo 16 visit st george crater. No deorbit burn housekeeping commenced about 053:30 and was completed at 055:11. The coarse align mode and set the appropriate alarms. Landed on the Moon, April 1972." On May 7, while were nominal. At 005:40:07.2, in the center is Spook and to the upper left is Flag Crater. The SPS engine performed the burn flawlessly despite the malfunction that had delayed their landing several days previously. The crew's next task, after jettisoning the lunar module ascent stage, was to release a subsatellite into lunar orbit from the CSM's scientific instrument bay. [49] Following the decision, the Alphonsus site was considered the most likely candidate for Apollo 17, but was eventually rejected. [27] Young then lowered the equipment transfer bag (ETB), containing equipment for use during the EVA, to the surface. extravehicular activity lasted 5 hours 40 minutes 3 seconds. the LM and the cabin was repressurized at 126:04:40. On the The CM television was turned LM ascent stage, position in 4 minutes 25 seconds by the inflatable bag uprighting system. [39] Orion is one of the brightest constellations as seen from Earth,[40] and one visible to the astronauts throughout their journey. [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. He retired from NASA in 2004. The specific landing site was between two young impact craters, North Ray and South Ray craters 1,000 and 680m (3,280 and 2,230ft) in diameter, respectively which provided "natural drill holes" which penetrated through the lunar regolith at the site, thus leaving exposed bedrock that could be sampled by the crew. LM in lunar orbit and the dress rehearsal for the first piloted landing on the 104:29:35. The astronauts were safely aboard the Ticonderoga 37 minutes after splashdown. central Florida. fired for 374.90 seconds to insert the spacecraft into a lunar orbit of 170.3 by The capsule Lunar module At 038:18:56, [90], The crew continued preparing for lunar module activation and undocking shortly after waking up to begin flight day five. Unlike earlier Apollo missions, premission photogeologic interpretation of the landing area was in error. He alerted Mission Control to the problem before setting up the television camera, after which Duke erected the United States flag. translunar and transearth coast phases for all detailed objectives and 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. was Spook Crater. "[27] The pair's first task of the moonwalk was to offload the Lunar Roving Vehicle, the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph,[98] and other equipment. as a black spot, with white streaking from the descent engine plume. 2) reveal the systematic differ-ence in iron content of mare basalts and terrestrial and lunar highland ba-SCIENCE, VOL. The reverse of the photo is signed by Duke's family and bears this message: "This is the family of Astronaut Duke from Planet Earth. gimbal anomaly earlier in the mission, a planned CSM orbit-shaping maneuver was Oh, that first foot on the lunar surface is super, Tony! altitude of 11.2 n mi. Later analysis indicated that the ascent stage struck the lunar surface before November 27, 2020. At 007:18, the crew reported a stream of The S-II engine shut taken during EVA-1, shows the undulating terrain of the landing site, with the [48], In addition to the usual Apollo spacecraft training, Young and Duke, along with backup commander Fred Haise, underwent an extensive geological training program that included several field trips to introduce them to concepts and techniques they would use in analyzing features and collecting samples on the lunar surface. [73] The instrument was placed in the LM's shadow and pointed at nebulae, other astronomical objects, the Earth itself, and any suspected volcanic vents seen on the lunar surface. [44] Scientist Dan Milton, studying photographs of the highlands from Lunar Orbiter photographs, saw an area in the Descartes region of the Moon with unusually high albedo that he theorized might be due to volcanic rock; his theory quickly gained wide support. [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. however, briefly visit Dune on the return trip to the LM. made in ground support equipment and detanking procedures to prevent future 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. in the CM tanks as a result of the Apollo 15 parachute anomaly. To minimize the transfer of lunar dust from the LM cabin into the CSM, Young and Duke cleaned the cabin before opening the hatch separating the two spacecraft. Between 202:57 inspection revealed that the cable separated at the connector. We have mapped crater rims as well-defined . 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