First arrive on the moon land with Apollo 16 | Space Live

On this day 1972 - Apollo 16 lands on the Moon, but had a close call in the final seconds before touchdown | Moonpans.com

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

Apollo 16 Wind Problem During the Apollo 16 mission, Charlie Duke and John Young not only had to overcome, the vacuum of space, 1/6th gravity and temperature extremes, but also a bad case of the farts | Moonpans.com

Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) in action during the Apollo 16 mission in April 1972. This video shows astronauts John Young and Charles Duke driving the rover across the Moon’s surface, exploring craters, collecting samples, and making history as only a handful of humans have done. Apollo 16 was the fifth mission to land humans on the Moon, and this footage really brings the mission to life — showing the mobility and excitement of lunar exploration beyond static photos. Imagine riding a rover in the