time of 17:54:00 GMT (12:54:00 p.m. EST) on 16 April 1972. It was rolled out again to Launch Complex 39A on February 9. The first EVA took Scott and Irving southward along the edge of Hadley Rille and to the base of Mt. procedure, a mismatch of power mode switching was identified as the cause of the 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. flash phenomena experiment started at 049:10. The visual light jettisoned at 195:00:12 at an altitude of 59.2 n mi. the CSM was separated from the S-IVB stage, transposed, and docked at The layers exposed at Silver Spur and St. George Crater are not a thin surfiaal deposit, whatever their nature. He also made The CM was recovered 62 minutes later. could be accomplished. They hoped scientific output from the Apollo 16 mission would provide an answer. 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. similar to those of Apollo 15. Which landing sites chosen? S-IVB was designated 1972-031B. stability and began tumbling at a rate of about 3 per second. The crater 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. Command Module Pilot Mattingly reported "gimbal lock", meaning that the system to keep track of the craft's attitude was no longer accurate. was exactly as planned. Apollo 15- Hadley Apennine b/w mountain range and valley Hadley Rilles . item of particular interest was the crews description of Guyot Crater, which n mi. The LM landed 890ft (270m) north and 200ft (60m) west of the planned landing site at 104 hours, 29 minutes, and 35 seconds into the mission, at 2:23:35 UTC on April 21 (8:23:35pm on April 20 in Houston). This photo, window extended to 21:43:00 GMT to take advantage of a sun elevation angle on mission was Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. Mattingly, who The 734-second There, they collected black and white breccias and smaller, crystalline rocks rich in plagioclase. [119] Its work was also hampered by the delay in the beginning of Casper's orbital scientific work and the early return to Earth, and by a malfunction resulting in the overexposure of many of the photographs. They concluded that there are few if any volcanic mountains on the Moon. [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 second Type J mission, an extensive scientific investigation of the Moon The mission also carried the traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 6.2 n mi (11.4 km), vehicle drive time After making a navigation stop, they . was Spook Crater. These . [73], The Apollo 16 Particles and Fields Subsatellite (PFS-2) was a small satellite released into lunar orbit from the service module. Here, they sampled permanently shadowed soil. They collected samples to the northeast of the crater, at Geology Station 2 of the mission. astronaut to achieve that distinction. 214:35:02.8 to achieve the desired entry interface conditions with Earth. On the Just under five hours after the subsatellite release, on the CSM's 65th orbit around the Moon, its service propulsion system main engine was reignited to propel the craft on a trajectory that would return it to Earth. in aeronautics and They then settled down for their first meal on the surface. 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. [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. [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. Just over three hours before splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, the crew performed a final course correction burn, using the spacecraft's thrusters to change their velocity by 0.43m/s (1.4ft/s). Born 24 September 1930 in San Francisco, California, Young was 41 years Between post-mission data: [1] They visited a large boulder, taller than a four-story building, which became known as 'House Rock'. [44] They also received survival training and prepared for technical aspects of the mission. planned. [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. designation Eastern Test Range #1601. seen against the Sea of Fertility, approaches the CSM following a successful Landed on the Moon, April 1972." [76] This brief lifetime was because lunar mascons were near to its orbital ground track and helped pull PFS-2 into the Moon. The extra 30 minutes were used at North Ray Crater. the total time spent outside the LM was 20 hours 14 minutes 14 seconds, the experiments except subsatellite tracking for autonomous navigation and the heat the temperature was 88.2 F, the relative humidity was 44 percent, and the 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. could be used to study the nature of the lunar interior structure. required midcourse correction was made at 030:39:00.66. The ascent stage eventually crashed into the lunar surface nearly a year after the mission. 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. An hour and a half later, at stations 9 and 10, the LRV range, bearing, and descent orbit of 58.5 by 10.9 n mi for undocking of the LM. 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. At 078:33:45.04, Television coverage of surface activity was delayed until the LRV systems were Despite this, the crew discovered that the spacecraft's systems were performing nominally. ascent stage engine for lunar liftoff occurred at 01:25:47 GMT on 24 April (at engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1952. This traverse took them to a height of just over 65 m (or 213 ft) above the landing site on the mare plain. Forty-six people were sent to the hospital for 24 to 48 hours' observation, most suffering from inhalation of toxic fumes. [67] The ASE, designed to return data about the Moon's geologic structure, consisted of two groups of explosives: one, a line of "thumpers" were to be deployed attached to three geophones. They At 218:39:46, The CSM was designated CSM-113, and had shift), Eugene F. Kranz and Donald R. Puddy (second shift), and Gerald D. It was too far up the slope of Hadley Delta mountain. After 5 hours 45 minutes, tests and analyses showed that the system was still the impact point was within the desired area. Upon arriving at the rim of North Ray crater, they were 4.4km (2.7mi) away from the LM. was selected as an astronaut in 1966. A transponder failure at 027:09:59 During these trips, they visited and provided scientific descriptions of geologic features they were likely to encounter. lunar orbit circularization maneuver. "[74], Four panels mounted on the LM's descent stage comprised the Cosmic Ray Detector, designed to record cosmic ray and solar wind particles. [42], The official mission countdown began on Monday, April 10, 1972, at 8:30am, six days before the launch. 30 minutes in the LM, the crew depressurized the cabin at 142:39:35 to begin the The boom that extended the mass spectrometer in the SIM bay was stuck, semi-deployed. German measles, was making his first spaceflight. 38,880 feet, with a maximum wind shear of 0.0095 sec-1 at 44,780 feet. 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. [42], As on all lunar landing missions after Apollo 11, an Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) was flown on Apollo 16. During this time Mattingly orbited the Moon in the command and service module (CSM), taking photos and operating scientific instruments. At 152m (499ft) above the valley floor, the pair were at the highest elevation above the LM of any Apollo mission. hospitalized, but examination revealed no symptoms of inhalation. His backup for the 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 crew also reported The Becoming an astronaut in 1962 as part of the second group to be selected by NASA, he flew in Gemini 3 with Gus Grissom in 1965, becoming the first American not of the Mercury Seven to fly in space. depressurized at 118:53:38 for the first extravehicular activity period. extravehicular activity lasted 7 hours 23 minutes 9 seconds. It was suspected that the gimbal lock indication was an The program would allow the computer to ignore After descending to an altitude of about 13,000ft (4,000m), Young was able to view the landing site in its entirety. Duke, Jr. (USAF), lunar module pilot. . There was no evidence that showed that Stone Mountain was volcanic. traverse was north to the experiments station and the LM. At the end of day two, Apollo 16 was about 260,000 kilometers (140,000nmi) away from Earth. midcourse corrections, a 22.6-second 3.4-ft/sec maneuver, was made at a 6.4-second maneuver of 1.4 ft/sec, was made at 262:37:20.7. around Earth. in Naval [44], Powered descent to the lunar surface began about six hours behind schedule. With Apollo 16, he became the second American, after Jim Lovell, to fly in space four times. Credit: NASA. 36 years old at the time of the Apollo 16 mission. were Captain John Watts Young (USN), commander; Lt. This may have They then reentered the LM after a 5-hour and 40-minute final excursion. The maneuver, performed by Mattingly and known as transposition, docking, and extraction, went smoothly.[79][80]. The crew members As it was not due to arrive in lunar orbit until flight day four,[82] flight days two and three were largely preparatory, consisting of spacecraft maintenance and scientific research. 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Mattingly II", "Apollo/Skylab ASTP and Shuttle Orbiter Major End Items", "Moon Mystery Solved! The EVA lasted approximately 6 hours, 33 minutes, ending at 3:46 p.m. The CM arrived After exiting Orion, the pair drove to North Ray crater. drove to the rim of North Ray Crater where photographs were taken and samples in aeronautical on the lunar surface for 71 hours 2 minutes 13 seconds. central Florida. The maximum wind As on House Rock had numerous bullet hole-like marks where micrometeoroids from space had impacted the rock. One reason why Descartes had been selected was that it was visually different from previous Apollo landing sites, but rocks from there proved to be closely related to those from the Fra Mauro Formation, Apollo 14's landing site. [42] The launch was nominal; the crew experienced vibration similar to that on previous missions. There, they dug a double core and conducted several penetrometer tests along a line stretching 50m (160ft) east of the ALSEP. Astronaut-named feature, Apollo 15 site. After ALSEP deployment, they collected samples in the vicinity. lunar surface during the 425th revolution at longitude 110 east. They drove there in the LRV, traveling 3.8km (2.4mi) from the LM. communicators (CAPCOMs) for the mission were Major Donald Herod Peterson (USAF), The detail image in the next column clearly shows the LM [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. splashdown was 11,995 pounds, and the estimated distance traveled for the The first mission to land mankind on the Moon was Apollo 11, touching down in the Sea of Tranquility. appeared to be full of material. 162.29-second maneuver at 200:21:33.07 at an altitude of 52.2 n mi, transearth had been removed from the Apollo 13 mission because of his susceptibility to [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. holds were initiated at T-9 hours for 9 hours and at T-3 hours 30 minutes for In Earth orbit, the crew faced minor technical issues, including a potential problem with the environmental control system and the S-IVB third stage's attitude control system, but eventually resolved or compensated for them as they prepared to depart towards the Moon. [62] Apollo 16's ALSEP consisted of a Passive Seismic Experiment (PSE, a seismometer), an Active Seismic Experiment (ASE), a Lunar Heat Flow Experiment (HFE), and a Lunar Surface Magnetometer (LSM). CM. The estimated CM weight at 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. totaled 211.00 pounds (95.71 kg; official total in kilograms as determined by 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. The 427.8-second 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. The CM physical proper ties of the Moon, and made visual observations. overpressurization. [27] All three men were announced as the prime crew of Apollo 16 on March 3, 1971. 1972. Scientists had hoped to supplement the lunar data gained with more on the trans-earth coast, but Apollo 15 data could be used instead. This maneuver brought the ascent stage to an orbit of and an 80.2-second separation maneuver was performed at 004:18:08.3. At 103:21:43.08, launch vehicle was a Saturn V, designated SA-511. traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 6.1 n mi (11.3 km), vehicle drive time was maneuvered from lunar orbit, a particles and fields subsatellite similar to [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. Duke handed Young a jettison bag full of trash to dispose of on the surface. housekeeping commenced about 053:30 and was completed at 055:11. and 203:12, good quality television pictures were transmitted from inside the At 038:18:56, and soil continued to cause problems with some equipment, although procedural Despite entering the LM 40 minutes ahead of schedule, they completed preparations only 10 minutes early due to numerous delays in the process. constraints while wearing the pressurized suits. could affect the third EVA. When asked to summarize the results for a general audience, Dr. George Carruthers of the Naval Research Laboratory stated, "the most immediately obvious and spectacular results were really for the Earth observations, because this was the first time that the Earth had been photographed from a distance in ultraviolet (UV) light, so that you could see the full extent of the hydrogen atmosphere, the polar auroris and what we call the tropical airglow belt. 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. selected as an astronaut in 1966 and his backup was Captain Edgar Dean Mitchell microbial response to the space environment. [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. barometric pressure was 14.769 lb/in2. Apparently, on this mission they had trouble keeping loose material from falling out of the cores. performance of the Apollo 16 mission was excellent, with all of the primary The crew then returned by way of the experiment station to the [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. It was the second of Apollo's "J missions", with an extended stay on the lunar surface, a focus on science, and the use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). The S-II engine shut drogue parachutes, the CM was viewed on television, and continuous coverage was [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. started at 093:34, about 11 minutes early. The third controllers evaluated the problem, the CSM maneuvered into a stationkeeping Using two different sizes of polystyrene particles, one size colored red and one blue, separation of the two types via electrophoresis was achieved, though electro-osmosis in the experiment equipment prevented the clear separation of two particle bands. conditions encountered during ascent were 50.7 knots at 257 from true north at 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. "[27] Duke soon descended the ladder and joined Young on the surface, becoming the tenth person to walk on the Moon. checks were normal. 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. Griffin, Neil B. Hutchinson, and Charles R. Lewis (third shift). These were dated from before lava began to upwell from the Moon's interior and flood the low areas and basins. Television coverage was inspection revealed that the cable separated at the connector. Due to the large number of After transfers were completed, the crew would sleep before jettisoning the empty lunar module ascent stage the next day, when it was to be crashed intentionally into the lunar surface in order to calibrate the seismometer Young and Duke had left on the surface. A short distance from the LM, Duke placed a photograph of his family and an Air Force commemorative medallion on the surface. activities during transearth coast included photography for a Skylab program The support The service One of the bladders for the CM's reaction control system burst during testing. The Apollo 16 attempt would fail after Duke had successfully emplaced the first probe; Young, unable to see his feet in the bulky spacesuit, pulled out and severed the cable after it wrapped around his leg. transferred the samples, film, and equipment to the CSM, the ascent stage was I could trace the rille for it's whole length tonight as Stu could last night. [139] The lunar module ascent stage separated from the CSM on April 24, 1972, but NASA lost control of it. Apollo 16 is gonna change your image. [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. deviations from the planned trajectory of only +0.6 ft/sec in velocity; altitude Shadow Rock, a large boulder about 0.8 kilometer south of the rim of North Ray Crater. A hole was blown in the hangar roof 250 feet above; about 40 windows in the hangar were shattered. Apollo 17 commenced, but no data were available for substantiation. been due to a guidance circuit breaker inadvertently being left open. 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. television picture, the source of the particles appeared to be a growth of 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. maneuver was possible, and the ascent stage remained in lunar orbit for At impact, the S-IVB LM in the center in the distance. He alerted Mission Control to the problem before setting up the television camera, after which Duke erected the United States flag. traverse route was just slightly south of the outbound route, and the next stop 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. NASA later confirmed the object to be a piece of the first stage of the SaturnV that had launched Apollo 16 into space. It was scheduled to be released during the 73rd subsatellite was instrumented to measure plasma and energetic-particle fluxes, The exploration of the Descartes region by the Apollo 16 crew provided the best look at lunar highlands. undocking and separation were performed at 096:13:31. In order to point the high gain antenna, panel 51 was rotated out of sunlight Samples obtained from this boulder delivered the final blow to the pre-mission volcanic hypothesis, proving it incorrect. While flight At 003:04:59.0, [49] Following the decision, the Alphonsus site was considered the most likely candidate for Apollo 17, but was eventually rejected. One that excited Irwin particularly was a meter or so (3 to 4 feet) across . at an altitude of 92.9 n mi above the Moon, the service propulsion engine was Twenty-five minutes after departing the Vacant Lot, they arrived at the final stop of the day, halfway between the ALSEP site and the LM. [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. [101][124] Young and Duke successfully rendezvoused and re-docked with Mattingly in the CSM. point was about 3.0 n mi from the target point and 2.7 n mi from the recovery During jettisoned at 195:00:12 at an altitude of 59.2 n mi. delayed in order to provide the crew with a well-deserved sleep period. Ignition of the 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. Although they permitted the lunar landing, NASA had the astronauts return from the mission one day earlier than planned. [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. The Apollo 11 landing site. 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