Apollo 16
Mission: Apollo 16
On April 16, 1972, astronauts Young, Charles Moss Duke, Jr., and Thomas Kenneth
(Ken) Mattingly were launched on the Apollo 16 mission to the moon, to explore the
Descartes Highlands and the Cayley Plains regions. While Mattingly remained in orbit, the
two other astronauts landed in the assigned area on April 20. They spent 20 hours, 14
minutes on the moon, setting up a number of experiments powered by a small nuclear
station, traveling about 26.6 km (about 16.5 mi) in the lunar rover, and collecting more
than 97 kg (214 lb) of rock samples.
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