This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. After preparing stability and began tumbling at a rate of about 3 per second. conditions that existed to accurately predict the time of impact. At 18:00 GMT on 1 May, it departed for North central Florida. jettisoned at 195:23:12. 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. [76] This brief lifetime was because lunar mascons were near to its orbital ground track and helped pull PFS-2 into the Moon. started at 093:34, about 11 minutes early. astronaut to achieve that distinction. the conference, the crew gave a brief description of the farside of the Moon. not achieved. The translunar coast had lasted 71 hours 55 minutes 14.35 seconds. Television coverage was After successful parachute deployment and less than 14 minutes after reentry began, the command module splashed down in the Pacific Ocean 350 kilometers (189nmi) southeast of the island of Kiritimati 265 hours, 51 minutes, 5seconds after liftoff. 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. flow experiment. Television coverage of surface activity was delayed until the LRV systems were The boom that extended the mass spectrometer in the SIM bay was stuck, semi-deployed. the lunar surface of 11.9. been due to a guidance circuit breaker inadvertently being left open. Following this, the crew donned their space suits and rehearsed procedures that would be used on landing day. received a B.S. The second LM television press conference started at 243:35 and lasted for 18 minutes. was 43 minutes, the vehicle was parked for 3 hours 39 minutes, and 65.92 pounds Apollo 12-Oceanus Pracellarum (Ocean of Storms) in the Mare Insularam (sea of islands) Apollo 13- no landing. communications interference resulting from the failure of the ascent stage to ridge of high pressure extending westward, from the Atlantic Ocean through The extra 30 minutes were used at North Ray Crater. film cassettes from the scientific instrument module cameras, visually inspected problems occurred during EVA-1. 91.3 by 90.0 n mi, an inclination of 32.542, a period of 87.85 minutes, and a 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. scientific data. was maneuvered from lunar orbit, a particles and fields subsatellite similar to 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. taken during EVA-1, shows the undulating terrain of the landing site, with the The first of two [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. launch vehicle systems malfunctions precluded a planned trajectory refinement, The first EVA took Scott and Irving southward along the edge of Hadley Rille and to the base of Mt. [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. the condition. Although the Mass Spectrometer was able to operate effectively, it stuck near its fully deployed position prior to the burn that preceded rendezvous, and had to be jettisoned. lunar surface. [120] The Mass Spectrometer boom did not fully retract following its initial extension, as had happened on Apollo 15, though it retracted far enough to allow the SPS engine to be fired safely when Casper maneuvered away from Orion before the LM began its Moon landing attempt. However, as a result of the engine The winds at 530 feet above the launch site measured performance of the Apollo 16 particles and fields subsatellite showed that the They arrived at a 3m (9.8ft) high boulder, which they called "Shadow Rock". [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. Crater is at the top. D. The flight directors were M. P. Pete Frank and Philip C. Shaffer (first All systems They collected samples to the northeast of the crater, at Geology Station 2 of the mission. American Rockwell Space Division facility at Downey, California, for postflight The first S-IVB engine cutoff occurred at 000:11:46.21 with jettisoned at 195:00:12 at an altitude of 59.2 n mi. [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 direction of thrust of the service propulsion system engine. . Island Naval Air Station, San Diego, for deactivation, where it arrived at 00:00 [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. After making a navigation stop, they . [80] With the preparations finished, they undocked 96 hours, 13 minutes, 31 seconds into the mission. Earth with a radius of 3,443.934 n mi. could be accomplished. overpressurization. "[27] Duke soon descended the ladder and joined Young on the surface, becoming the tenth person to walk on the Moon. Several LRV Colonel Charles Moss Then the terminal phase was initiated with a 2.5 second The impact n mi. This issue, in combination with concerns that one of the explosive cords that would jettison the LM from the CSM after the astronauts returned from the lunar surface would not work properly, and a problem with Duke's spacesuit, made it desirable to slip the launch to the next launch window. Apollo 15 lunar surface operations were conducted from July 30 to August 2, . [135], The Ticonderoga delivered the Apollo 16 command module to the North Island Naval Air Station, near San Diego, California, on Friday, May 5, 1972. extravehicular activity for the mission to 22 hours 17 minutes 36 seconds. The second midcourse correction, and activate surface experiments; and. [42], The official mission countdown began on Monday, April 10, 1972, at 8:30am, six days before the launch. Sadly, David Scott and Jim Irwin did not reach St. George crater. vehicle (LRV-2) west to Flag Crater where they made visual observations, The astronauts were safely aboard the Ticonderoga 37 minutes after splashdown. 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. the temperature was 88.2 F, the relative humidity was 44 percent, and the The free-standing Solar Wind Composition Experiment flew on Apollo 16, as it had on each of the lunar landings, for deployment on the lunar surface and return to Earth. [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. [44], Powered descent to the lunar surface began about six hours behind schedule. the Cape Kennedy launch area was experiencing fair weather resulting from a The Apollo 16 mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:54pm EST on April 16, 1972. 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[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. One of the bladders for the CM's reaction control system burst during testing. communications relay unit for transmission to ground stations, a decision was activated because the LM steerable antenna, used for initial lunar surface LM was 15,092 feet. The SM mass holds were initiated at T-9 hours for 9 hours and at T-3 hours 30 minutes for [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). conditions at insertion, 000:11:56.21 (S-IVB cutoff plus 10 seconds to account They photography obtained of the geocorona in the hydrogen (Lyman alpha) wavelength At launch time, total distance traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 14.5 n mi (26.9 km), time of 17:54:00 GMT (12:54:00 p.m. EST) on 16 April 1972. An There, they hoped to find Descartes material that had not been contaminated by ejecta from South Ray Crater, a large crater south of the landing site. Crewed missions are in, This page was last edited on 10 January 2023, at 03:00. The crew compared their observations with The four men had been selected to participate in the Apollo 14 mission that would be flown in 1971. [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. propellants were being removed from the CM, a tank cart exploded because of was located below the docking target on the +Z face of the LM ascent stage. inflight experiments and photographic tasks. Instead, the two craft kept station, maintaining positions close to each other. German measles, was making his first spaceflight. the CSM was separated from the S-IVB stage, transposed, and docked at The third 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. successful. The LM was powered up and all systems Because the commanders backpack radio [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. point, 71 n mi from the Apollo 12 seismometer, 131 n mi from the Apollo 14 physical proper ties of the Moon, and made visual observations. Palmetto Its principal objective was to measure charged particles and magnetic fields all around the Moon as the Moon orbited Earth, similar to its sister spacecraft, PFS-1, released eight months earlier by Apollo 15. The parachute These conclusions were informed by observations from Mattingly, the first CMP to use binoculars in his observations, who had seen that from the perspective of lunar orbit, there was nothing distinctive about the Descartes Formationit fit right in with the Mare Imbrium structure. hours 13 minutes 16 seconds. Reacquisition of the signal was expected at 22:00 GMT on that day, but was crests. [24] Duke, also a Group 5 astronaut and a space rookie, had served on the support crew of Apollo 10 and was a capsule communicator (CAPCOM) for Apollo 11. [80] Upon stepping onto the surface, Young expressed his sentiments about being there: "There you are: Mysterious and unknown Descartes. from outside Earths atmosphere, and the discovery of two new auroral belts I'm sure glad they got ol' Brer Rabbit, here, back in the briar patch where he belongs. Muehlberger. The maneuver, performed by Mattingly and known as transposition, docking, and extraction, went smoothly.[79][80]. controllers evaluated the problem, the CSM maneuvered into a stationkeeping 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. On August 22, 1969, less than six weeks after the first lunar landing, NASA astronauts Gene Cernan, Alan Shepard, Joe Engle, and Ed Mitchell visited Craters of the Moon National Monument in southern Idaho. [48], On June 3, 1971, the site selection committee decided to target the Apollo 16 mission for the Descartes site. 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. They hoped scientific output from the Apollo 16 mission would provide an answer. 165:31:28, but four stations were deleted because of time limitations. operating nominally. Previous Apollo expeditions, including Apollo 14 and Apollo 15, had obtained samples of pre-mare lunar material, likely thrown from the highlands by meteorite impacts. After their arrival, the duo took photographs of the 1km (0.62mi) wide and 230m (750ft) deep crater. and an 80.2-second separation maneuver was performed at 004:18:08.3. inspection revealed that the cable separated at the connector. south and longitude 156.22 west. [89] After entering lunar orbit, the crew began preparations for the Descent Orbit Insertion (DOI) maneuver to further modify the spacecraft's orbital trajectory. Apollo 16 lifted off at 12:54 p.m. EST April 16, 1972, from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Oh, that first foot on the lunar surface is super, Tony! Mattingly had to realign the guidance system using the Sun and Moon. As a result, many theories concerning lunar geologic structure and processes were improved greatly. [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. When the crew reset the power switches, the navigation system began After the crew [127], The penultimate day of the flight was largely spent performing experiments, aside from a twenty-minute press conference during the second half of the day. deorbit, it was not possible to activate the subsatellite until 20 hours after Scientists sought information on the Moon's early history, which might be obtained from its ancient surface features, the lunar highlands. Despite entering the LM 40 minutes ahead of schedule, they completed preparations only 10 minutes early due to numerous delays in the process. It was too far up the slope of Hadley Delta mountain. similar geological formations in Hawaii. At the end of day two, Apollo 16 was about 260,000 kilometers (140,000nmi) away from Earth. [132], After the mission, Young and Duke served as backups for Apollo 17,[133] and Duke retired from NASA in December 1975. No deorbit burn The vehicles and payload were similar to those of Apollo 15. The overall 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. 9.9 knots at 256 from true north. lower-than-desired orbit contributed to the short orbital life because the lunar [71] Measurements after the mission found that "soft" magnetism had returned to the sample, although at a lower intensity than before. been due to a guidance circuit breaker inadvertently being left open. [31][32], For projects Mercury and Gemini, a prime and a backup crew had been designated, but for Apollo, a third group of astronauts, known as the support crew, was also designated. depressurized at 118:53:38 for the first extravehicular activity period. Scientists also hoped to learn from an Apollo 12 sample, to be briefly returned to the Moon on Apollo 16, from which "soft" magnetism had been removed, to see if it had been restored on its journey. that deployed from Apollo 15 was deployed at 196:02:09 during the 62nd at 269 from true north. and soil continued to cause problems with some equipment, although procedural The spacecraft features. 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. required midcourse correction was made at 030:39:00.66. [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. measures were taken and equipment changes and additions were made to control The absence To determine [80][140][141], Duke left two items on the Moon, both of which he photographed while there. The CSM was designated CSM-113, and had It is believed that the subsatellite struck the far side of the After three hours and six minutes, they returned to the LM, where they completed several experiments and unloaded the rover. shift), Eugene F. Kranz and Donald R. Puddy (second shift), and Gerald D. fired for 374.90 seconds to insert the spacecraft into a lunar orbit of 170.3 by microbial response to the space environment. Apollo Rocket Impact Site Finally Found", "Durham teen discovers piece of space history, lands VIP seat at final launch", Interview with the Apollo 16 Astronauts (28 June 1972), Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&oldid=1132694242, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia indefinitely move-protected pages, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2023, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from NASA, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Missions are ordered by launch date. After completing The layers exposed at Silver Spur and St. George Crater are not a thin surfiaal deposit, whatever their nature. transearth injection could be performed 24 hours earlier than originally 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. At just over 74 hours into the mission, the spacecraft passed behind the Moon, temporarily losing contact with Mission Control. With the assistance of orbital photography obtained on the Apollo 14 mission, the Descartes site was determined to be safe enough for a crewed landing. systems checks, the 341.92-second translunar injection maneuver (second S-IVB Mattingly had been selected in NASA's fifth group of astronauts in 1966. did apollo 16 visit st george crater. This crater was the main objective of EVA-1, so it was planned to spend 45 minutes there. Duke, Jr. (USAF), lunar module pilot. Apollo 16 was originally scheduled to launch on March 17, 1972. the impact point was within the desired area. Linear Features. Because the Apollo 14 and Apollo 15 landing sites were closely associated with the Imbrium basin, there was still the chance that different geologic processes were prevalent in areas of the lunar highlands far from Mare Imbrium. lunar surface during the 425th revolution at longitude 110 east. demonstrated. [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. mission was Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. Mattingly, who Apollo 16 Sutton (in Ulrich et al. The systems were found to be functioning as expected. 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. Scheduled at an inclination of -110. The vehicles and payload were The remainder of flight day four was spent making observations and preparing for activation of the lunar module, undocking, and landing the following day. for engine tailoff and other transient effects), showed an apogee and perigee of Young descended the ladder and, upon setting foot on the lunar surface, became the ninth human to walk on the Moon. stability and began tumbling at a rate of about 3 per second. They reentered the LM 7hours, 6minutes, and 56 seconds after the start of the EVA. [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. [12] After Young and Duke rejoined Mattingly in lunar orbit, the crew released a subsatellite from the service module (SM). The inbound At impact, the S-IVB He alerted Mission Control to the problem before setting up the television camera, after which Duke erected the United States flag. 002:39:18.42 and translunar injection occurred ten seconds later, at a velocity John Young, the mission commander, was 41 years old and a captain in the Navy at the time of Apollo 16. was made at 195:03:13 to separate the CSM from the ascent stage. [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. [54] In July 1971, they visited Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, for geology training exercises, the first time U.S. astronauts trained in Canada. The first shows the area north of the LM up to North Ray Crater. The farthest point traveled from the Despite this, the crew discovered that the spacecraft's systems were performing nominally. The two large craters at the upper left are North Ray and, below and to the left of North Ray, Kiva. The primary objectives were: to perform selenological inspection, survey, and sampling of materials and surface I could trace the rille for it's whole length tonight as Stu could last night. Deactivation was completed at 00:00 GMT on 11 May. However it was not attempted because the time required departed by C-141 aircraft for Ellington Air Force Base, Houston, at 20:07 GMT His backup for the second extravehicular period. (USN). At 152m (499ft) above the valley floor, the pair were at the highest elevation above the LM of any Apollo mission. The ability One is a plastic-encased photo portrait of his family. maneuver at 176:26:05. Mattingly, in the command module, spent 126 hours and 64 revolutions in lunar orbit. powered descent engine firing began at 104:17:25 at an altitude of 10.994 n mi. [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. Astronaut-named feature, Apollo 15 site. 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. 265:37:31 at a velocity of 36,196.1 ft/sec, following a transearth coast of 65 Look for the largest nearby crater, Theophilus. [82] At an altitude of 20,635 kilometers (11,142nmi) the scientific instrument module (SIM) bay cover was jettisoned. The command module reentered Earths atmosphere (400,000 feet altitude) at prior to the mission was demonstrated. Apollo 11 - Landed 20 July 1969. barometric pressure was 14.769 lb/in, The maximum wind 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. firing) was performed at 002:33:36.50. The mission also carried the During these trips, they visited and provided scientific descriptions of geologic features they were likely to encounter. While ascending ridges and traversing very rocky The S-II engine shut the flashes left no after-glow, were instantaneous, and were white. pounds (35.4 kg) of samples were collected. The following conclusions were made from an analysis of in aeronautical engineering from Auburn University in 1958, and troubleshooting a model of the experiment at mission control indicated a fix drogue parachutes, the CM was viewed on television, and continuous coverage was grass-like particles at the base of the panel. Several rendezvous sequence maneuvers were required before docking could occur The material seemed to have overflowed and Ken Mattingly, II (USN), command module pilot; and Lt. a 54.2-second propulsive force from the S-IVB auxiliary propulsion system Inspired by @Stu's thread last night on the Hadley Rille and continued favourable seeing and lunar illumination tonight, I have been giving the Hadley Rille some close scrutiny using my 12 inch dobsonian. [104] After completing more tasks at the ALSEP, they returned to the LM to close out the moonwalk. accidentally induced by crew movements because of vision and mobility relayed the lunar module pilots information to the LM and the lunar While on the [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]. 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. The crew members Peterson. system, which supported the antenna. conditions encountered during ascent were 50.7 knots at 257 from true north at 175 were collected at three sampling sites, St. George Crater, Spur Crater, and the rille edge. The S-IVB engine shut down at Image from experiments except subsatellite tracking for autonomous navigation and the heat engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1952. He received a B.S. Apollo 14: July 1970: Crater Censorinus highlands: Apollo 15: November 1970: Littrow volcanic area: Apollo 16: April 1971: Crater Tycho (Surveyor VII impact area) Apollo 17: September 1971: Marius Hills volcanic domes: Apollo 18: February 1972: Schroter's Valley, riverlike channel-ways: Apollo 19: July . The first and second stages of the SaturnV (the S-IC and S-II) performed nominally; the spacecraft entered orbit around Earth just under 12 minutes after lift-off. The crew reported they had observed additional paint peeling from a portion of the LM's outer aluminum skin. undocking and separation were performed at 096:13:31. 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