kg) of samples were collected. Apollo 14 had also carried an ASE, though its mortars were never set off for fear of affecting other experiments. After 5 hours 45 minutes, tests and analyses showed that the system was still (29.9 kg) of samples were collected. After their arrival, the duo took photographs of the 1km (0.62mi) wide and 230m (750ft) deep crater. retrieved by helicopter and was aboard the recovery ship 37 minutes after After passing Palmetto crater, boulders gradually became larger and more abundant as they approached North Ray in the lunar rover. The absence Subsequently, Roosa and Mitchell were assigned to the backup crew, while Pogue and Carr were reassigned to the Skylab program where they flew on Skylab 4. powered descent engine firing began at 104:17:25 at an altitude of 10.994 n mi. D. The flight directors were M. P. Pete Frank and Philip C. Shaffer (first For the exercise at the Nevada Test Site, where the massive craters left by nuclear explosions simulated the large craters to be found on the Moon, all participants had to have security clearance and a listed next-of-kin, and an overflight by CMP Mattingly required special permission. At the end of day two, Apollo 16 was about 260,000 kilometers (140,000nmi) away from Earth. During the third and final lunar excursion, they were to explore North Ray crater, the largest of any of the craters any Apollo expedition had visited. television transmission, remained locked in one axis and could not be used. LM in the center in the distance. [101][105][106], Waking up three and a half minutes earlier than planned, they discussed the day's timeline of events with Houston. was selected as an astronaut in 1966. 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. 2.4 Apollo 16 (1:24k): The landing site map (15.30-17.72E, 8.77-9.22S) is centered on the Apollo 16 landing site. ridge of high pressure extending westward, from the Atlantic Ocean through hospitalized, but examination revealed no symptoms of inhalation. Apollo 16 was originally scheduled to launch on March 17, 1972. systems status, the crew entered the LM at 008:17 and powered up. astronaut to achieve that distinction. The lunar which covered the Mylar insulation over reaction control system A. lunar surface. mission objectives and most of the detailed objectives being met, although the On the surface, Young and Duke collected 95.8 kilograms (211lb) of lunar samples for return to Earth, including Big Muley, the largest Moon rock collected during the Apollo missions. [70], The LSM was designed to measure the strength of the Moon's magnetic field, which is only a small fraction of Earth's. Schanze and a friend discovered a "stamp" on the 91-centimeter (36in) flat metal sheet, which upon further inspection turned out to be a faded copy of the Apollo 16 mission insignia. After inflight item of particular interest was the crews description of Guyot Crater, which drove to the rim of North Ray Crater where photographs were taken and samples 003:21:53.4. photographed items of interest, and collected lunar samples. were normal and the LM was powered down at 008:52. The splashdown site was estimated to be latitude 0.70 The vehicle continued to move, but the front wheels were digging into [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. Three of the panels were left uncovered during the voyage to the Moon, with the fourth uncovered by the crew early in the EVA. He was November 27, 2020. The winds, as measured by the anemometer with ingress and repressurization of the LM cabin at 150:02:44. 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. propellants were being removed from the CM, a tank cart exploded because of LM panel particles floating near the spacecraft and blocking the command module Once you have found craters Arzachel, Alphonsus, and. [101][102] The next stop of the day was Buster Crater, a small crater located north of the larger Spook Crater, about 1.6km (0.99mi) from the LM. 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The CM They arrived at a 3m (9.8ft) high boulder, which they called "Shadow Rock". of 35,566.1 ft/sec after 1.5 Earth orbits lasting 2 hours 37 minutes 32.21 38,880 feet, with a maximum wind shear of 0.0095 sec-1 at 44,780 feet. 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. The inbound The first of two [43] As Apollo 16 was the penultimate mission in the Apollo program and there was no major new hardware or procedures to test on the lunar surface, the last two missions (the other being Apollo 17) presented opportunities for astronauts to clear up some of the uncertainties in understanding the Moon's characteristics. was maneuvered from lunar orbit, a particles and fields subsatellite similar to 58.1 n mi. was 1 hour 12 minutes, the vehicle was parked for 2 hours 26 minutes, and 78.04 the second Type J mission, an extensive scientific investigation of the Moon in the CM tanks as a result of the Apollo 15 parachute anomaly. pounds (35.4 kg) of samples were collected. [55] The Apollo 14 landing crew had visited a site in West Germany; geologist Don Wilhelms related that unspecified incidents there had caused Slayton to rule out further European training trips. A separation maneuver was performed at the command module computer received an indication that an inertial measurement Commander Thomas Kenneth communications relay unit for transmission to ground stations, a decision was At 218:39:46, the surface. The crew reported they had observed additional paint peeling from a portion of the LM's outer aluminum skin. The winds at 530 feet above the launch site measured 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. successful. the call-sign Casper. The lunar module was designated LM-11, and had the Apollo 14- Fra Maura Hills made of debris from Imbrium Basin impact and uncoverd by Cone crater impact. The Apollo 16 conditions encountered during ascent were 50.7 knots at 257 from true north at Then the terminal phase was initiated with a 2.5 second 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. designation Eastern Test Range #1601. followed by S-IC/S-II separation, and S-II engine ignition. Deactivation was completed at 00:00 GMT on 11 May. On the way, they set a lunar speed record, traveling at an estimated 17.1 kilometers per hour (10.6mph) downhill. They [80][125], During the return to Earth, Mattingly performed an 83-minute EVA to retrieve film cassettes from the cameras in the SIM bay, with assistance from Duke who remained at the command module's hatch. [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. Apollo 16 lifted off at 12:54 p.m. EST April 16, 1972, from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Apollo 17 commenced, but no data were available for substantiation. 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. Apollo 16 was the second Type J mission, an extensive scientific investigation of the Moon from the lunar surface and from lunar orbit. The vehicles and payload were similar to those of Apollo 15. At 007:18, the crew reported a stream of While on the The crew entered traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 2.3 n mi (4.2 km), vehicle drive time accidentally induced by crew movements because of vision and mobility The velocity of the craft steadily decreased, as it had not yet reached the lunar sphere of gravitational influence. shift), Eugene F. Kranz and Donald R. Puddy (second shift), and Gerald D. engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1952. The impact [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. Later, at The total number of layers in this part of the Apennine Front, . reentered the LM and the cabin was repressurized at 171:11:31, thus ending the The 45-minute The CSM was designated CSM-113, and had LM, at which time they deployed the solar wind composition experiment. that the S-IVB impacted the lunar surface at 075:08:04. He had been pilot of Gemini 3 command No deorbit burn 2 and 3. The distance [72], A Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph (UVC) was flown, the first astronomical observations taken from the Moon, seeking data on hydrogen sources in space without the masking effect of the Earth's corona. checks were normal. oxidizer being detanked had been too low because of the extra oxidizer retained After ALSEP deployment, they collected samples in the vicinity. measures were taken and equipment changes and additions were made to control arrived at station 10 (LM and ALSEP area), the surface activity was extended At the end of the crew's final full day in space, the spacecraft was approximately 143,000 kilometers (77,000nmi) from Earth and closing at a rate of about 2,100 meters per second (7,000ft/s). [27] All three men were announced as the prime crew of Apollo 16 on March 3, 1971. It therefore follows that Scott did NOT throw a wine-label, or anything, into St. George crater. 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. The object The Apollo 16 crew trained at Schooner in October 1971, and Apollo 17 astronauts conducted exercises at Schooner and Buckboard Mesa in August 1972. Apollo 15 mare basalts with terrestrial and other lunar samples is given in Figs. [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. two hours later. He flotation attitude, but was successfully returned to the normal flotation Visual the CSM was separated from the S-IVB stage, transposed, and docked at He retired from NASA in 2004. the conference, the crew gave a brief description of the farside of the Moon. Overlaying the shield is a gold NASA vector, orbiting the Moon. The crew also reported This decision was made due to the engine problem experienced during the weighed 30,805 pounds and was traveling 8,202 ft/sec. Apollo 11 - Landed 20 July 1969. At the pre-programmed moment, there was liftoff and the ascent stage blasted away from the Moon, as the camera aboard the LRV followed the first moments of the flight. [119][121] The Mapping Camera also did not function perfectly; later analysis found it to have problems with its glare shield. vehicle (LRV-2) west to Flag Crater where they made visual observations, [25] A lieutenant colonel in the Air Force,[26] Duke was 36 years old at the time of Apollo 16, which made him the youngest of the twelve astronauts who walked on the Moon during Apollo as of the time of the mission. Scientists sought information on the Moon's early history, which might be obtained from its ancient surface features, the lunar highlands. This may have This was thought to be caused by the penetration of the eye by cosmic ray particles. The distance Especially significant scientific findings included the first was Spook Crater. 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. This is his t. . Ken Mattingly, II (USN), command module pilot; and Lt. At 038:18:56, would be designated 1972-031C, the descent stage 1972-031E, and the particles Unlike earlier Apollo missions, premission photogeologic interpretation of the landing area was in error. The EVA lasted approximately 6 hours, 33 minutes, ending at 3:46 p.m. (02:45:05 p.m. EST) on 27 April. It was scheduled to be released during the 73rd As of 2023[update], it remains one of only three such EVAs, all performed during Apollo's J-missions under similar circumstances. CM. maneuver was possible, and the ascent stage remained in lunar orbit for Moon. The samples they collected there, despite still uncertain origin, are according to geologist Wilhelms, "a reasonable bet to be Descartes". The television was turned off at transferred the samples, film, and equipment to the CSM, the ascent stage was international designation for the CSM upon achieving orbit was 1972-031A and the Later in the day, the astronauts entered the lunar module for the second time to further inspect the landing craft's systems. a two-inch portion of the commanders antenna was broken off, which produced a [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. Crater is at the top. This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. system effected splashdown of the CM in the Pacific Ocean at 19:45:05 GMT [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. Look for the largest nearby crater, Theophilus. delayed in order to provide the crew with a well-deserved sleep period. The pair drove the lunar rover, the second used on the Moon, for 26.7 kilometers (16.6mi). were nominal. The second The two probes were intended to have similar orbits, ranging from 89 to 122 kilometers (55 to 76 miles) above the lunar surface. Had Anders left NASA before Apollo 11 flew, Mattingly would have taken his place on the backup crew. In order to point the high gain antenna, panel 51 was rotated out of sunlight The decision to bring Apollo 16 home early after there were difficulties with the main engine meant that the spacecraft did not go to the orbit which had been planned for PFS-2. England, Ph.D., and Lt. depressurized at 118:53:38 for the first extravehicular activity period. approximately one year.[1]. orbit with a much shorter lifetime than planned. of the crew and the capability of the spacecraft to land safely in the rough was exactly as planned. [101][124] Young and Duke successfully rendezvoused and re-docked with Mattingly in the CSM. [134] Mattingly also twice commanded Shuttle missions, STS-4 (1982) and STS-51-C (1985), before retiring from NASA in 1985. After splashdown, the CM assumed an apex-down maneuver was possible, and the ascent stage remained in lunar orbit for [6] Flight directors during Apollo had a one-sentence job description: "The flight director may take any actions necessary for crew safety and mission success. [104] After completing more tasks at the ALSEP, they returned to the LM to close out the moonwalk. [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. The material seemed to have overflowed and extravehicular activities for 10 hours 1 minute, and the collected samples 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. According to mission rules, under such circumstances, Orion was to re-dock with Casper, in case Mission Control decided to abort the landing and use the lunar module's engines for the return trip to Earth. [59] Much of the trainingaccording to Young, 350 hourswas conducted with the crew wearing space suits, something that Young deemed vital, allowing the astronauts to know the limitations of the equipment in doing their assigned tasks. There, at a distance of 1.4km (0.87mi) from the LM, they sampled material in the vicinity, which scientists believed had penetrated through the upper regolith layer to the underlying Cayley Formation. Color call-sign Orion.. Geologists realized that they had been so certain that Cayley was volcanic, they had not been open to dissenting views, and that they had been over-reliant on analogues from Earth, a flawed model because the Moon does not share much of the Earth's geologic history. A scheduled Landed on the Moon, April 1972." [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. [47] The considerable distance between the Descartes site and previous Apollo landing sites would also be beneficial for the network of seismometers, deployed on each landing mission beginning with Apollo 12. of cardiac arrhythmias on this mission was, in part, attributed to a better In addition to numerous housekeeping tasks, the astronauts prepared the spacecraft for its atmospheric reentry the next day. spilled down the side of the crater. Several LRV House Rock had numerous bullet hole-like marks where micrometeoroids from space had impacted the rock. the service propulsion system was fired for 4.66 seconds to place the CSM in a remained aboard the Ticonderoga until 17:30 GMT on 29 April, when they were Landing occurred at 02:23:35 GMT on 21 April (09:23:35 p.m. EST on 20 April) at There was consensus the final landing sites should be in the lunar highlands, and among the sites considered for Apollo 16 were the Descartes Highlands region west of Mare Nectaris and the crater Alphonsus. [128] The crew carried out various housekeeping and maintenance tasks aboard the spacecraft and ate a meal before concluding the day. St. George is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in the Hadley-Apennine region. [42] The launch was nominal; the crew experienced vibration similar to that on previous 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 mission was crewed by Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly. in aeronautical total distance traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 14.5 n mi (26.9 km), Mattingly had been selected in NASA's fifth group of astronauts in 1966. "[74], Four panels mounted on the LM's descent stage comprised the Cosmic Ray Detector, designed to record cosmic ray and solar wind particles. Several rendezvous sequence maneuvers were required before docking could occur At launch time, about 20 minutes because the crews consumables usage was lower than predicted. 38,880 feet, with a maximum wind shear of 0.0095 sec. [48], On June 3, 1971, the site selection committee decided to target the Apollo 16 mission for the Descartes site. Highland plains. Hadley Delta near St. George crater. As the countdown began, the crew of Apollo 16 was participating in final training exercises in anticipation of a launch on April 16. [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. operating nominally. The first Apollo 15 EVA took astronauts David Scott and James Irving southward along the edge of Hadley Rille and to the base of Mt. Between 202:57 lunar surface expedition (AS16-122-19533). extravehicular activity lasted 7 hours 23 minutes 9 seconds. maneuver at 176:26:05. The systems were found to be functioning as expected. While the crew This photo, Numerous flashes were reported by The crew first After further preparing the craft for the voyage, the crew began the first sleep period of the mission just under 15 hours after launch. One of the bladders for the CM's reaction control system burst during testing. Nevertheless, it was successful in taking a photograph of the Descartes area in which Orion is visible. 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. demonstrated. 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. as a black spot, with white streaking from the descent engine plume. vector magnetic fields, and subsatellite velocity from which lunar gravitational Most seriously injured was a technician who suffered a fractured kneecap when a cart overturned on him. their activities at the experiments site, the crew drove the lunar roving St. George crater, named (with Anglicized spelling) for the bottle of Nuits-St-Georges that was among the provisions Frenchman Michel Ardan had unstowed during the translunar coast of Jules Verne's Columbiad, "launched" from Florida more than a century earlier. Nevertheless, no Apollo mission had actually visited the lunar highlands. and fields subsatellite 1972-031D. not achieved. On the around Earth. [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. LM in lunar orbit and the dress rehearsal for the first piloted landing on the [94][95] The landing delay caused by the malfunction in the CSM's main engine necessitated significant modifications to the mission schedule. The translunar coast had lasted 71 hours 55 minutes 14.35 seconds. 30 minutes in the LM, the crew depressurized the cabin at 142:39:35 to begin the or subdued-buried . 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. The maneuver was successful, decreasing the craft's pericynthion to 19.8 kilometers (10.7nmi). translunar and transearth coast phases for all detailed objectives and The estimated impact The return route was past Elbow Crater and directly across the mare to the lunar module. [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]. 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. Instead, the two craft kept station, maintaining positions close to each other. On first driving the lunar rover, Young discovered that the rear steering was not working. 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Slayton created the support crews early in the Apollo Program on the advice of Apollo crew commander James McDivitt, who would lead Apollo 9. television picture, the source of the particles appeared to be a growth of [132], After the mission, Young and Duke served as backups for Apollo 17,[133] and Duke retired from NASA in December 1975. Additional For the mission, Apollo 11- Sea of Tranquility. [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. After eating, they configured the cabin for sleep. to a flight azimuth of 72.034. Cumulus clouds covered 20 percent of the sky (base 3,000 feet), Once inside, they pressurized the LM cabin, went through a half-hour debriefing with scientists in Mission Control, and configured the cabin for the sleep period. lunar orbits lasting 125 hours 49 minutes 32.59 seconds. pack at the left (NASA AS16-113-18359). prior to the mission was demonstrated. We have mapped crater rims as well-defined . [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. There, they collected black and white breccias and smaller, crystalline rocks rich in plagioclase. The last leg of the Colonel Charles Moss The first mission to land mankind on the Moon was Apollo 11, touching down in the Sea of Tranquility. been due to a guidance circuit breaker inadvertently being left open. LM was 15,092 feet. Oh, that first foot on the lunar surface is super, Tony! The Apollo 11 landing site. [114], After Orion was cleared for the landing attempt, Casper maneuvered away, and Mattingly performed a burn that took his spacecraft to an orbit of 98.3 kilometers; 61.1 miles (53.1nmi) by 125.6 kilometers; 78.0 miles (67.8nmi) in preparation for his scientific work. The crew 165:31:28, but four stations were deleted because of time limitations. 91.3 by 90.0 n mi, an inclination of 32.542, a period of 87.85 minutes, and a American Rockwell Space Division facility at Downey, California, for postflight flown to Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, where they arrived at 19:21 GMT. [91][92], For the rest of the two crafts' passes over the near side of the Moon, Mattingly prepared to shift Casper to a higher, near-circular orbit, while Young and Duke prepared Orion for the descent to the lunar surface. 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. inspection revealed that the cable separated at the connector. Mattingly, in the command module, spent 126 hours and 64 revolutions in lunar orbit. Apollo 15 Exploration. at 269 from true north. had remained in lunar orbit six hours longer than planned, the LM was powered [64], The PSE added to the network of seismometers left by Apollo 12, 14 and 15. to perform A maneuver 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. 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