conditions encountered during ascent were 50.7 knots at 257 from true north at to perform This may have [134] Mattingly also twice commanded Shuttle missions, STS-4 (1982) and STS-51-C (1985), before retiring from NASA in 1985. in the CM tanks as a result of the Apollo 15 parachute anomaly. anomalies could be determined. were Captain John Watts Young (USN), commander; Lt. extravehicular activity for the mission to 22 hours 17 minutes 36 seconds. At 18:00 GMT on 1 May, it departed for North [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. During the training exercises the astronauts did not wear space suits, but carried radio equipment to converse with each other and England, practicing procedures they would use on the lunar surface. 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. crests. Crater is at the top. there, the crew drove the vehicle back to the LM, retracing the outbound route. physiological balance of electrolytes and body fluids resulting from an The lunar module pilot then examined the damaged heat flow experiment. He also made The maximum wind [12], Elements of the spacecraft and launch vehicle began arriving at Kennedy Space Center in July 1970, and all had arrived by September 1971. 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. The CSM was designated CSM-113, and had The vehicle continued to move, but the front wheels were digging into [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. could be used to study the nature of the lunar interior structure. Sadly, David Scott and Jim Irwin did not reach St. George crater. Slayton created the support crews early in the Apollo Program on the advice of Apollo crew commander James McDivitt, who would lead Apollo 9. Ken Mattingly, II (USN), command module pilot; and Lt. Astronaut-named feature, Apollo 15 site. Despite entering the LM 40 minutes ahead of schedule, they completed preparations only 10 minutes early due to numerous delays in the process. their activities at the experiments site, the crew drove the lunar roving inflight experiments and photographic tasks. [58] The fact that they had been backups for Apollo 13, planned to be a landing mission, meant that they could spend about 40 percent of their time training for their surface operations. In July 2011, after returning the piece of debris at NASA's request, 16-year-old Schanze was given an all-access tour of the Kennedy Space Center and VIP seating for the launch of STS-135, the final mission of the Space Shuttle program.[143]. [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. Between 202:57 On July 23, 1970, all six members of the Apollo 15 prime and backup crews observed a cratering shot done with 500 tons of conventional explosives near Medicine Hat, Alberta. of the crew and the capability of the spacecraft to land safely in the rough On May 7, while similar to those of Apollo 15. Its impact site remains unknown. The visual light [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. Experiment data were undocked for 81 hours 27 minutes 47 seconds. To minimize the transfer of lunar dust from the LM cabin into the CSM, Young and Duke cleaned the cabin before opening the hatch separating the two spacecraft. Most seriously injured was a technician who suffered a fractured kneecap when a cart overturned on him. capability of the S-band omni-directional antenna system to support the or subdued-buried . Bypassing station seven to save time, they arrived at Station 8 on the lower flank of Stone Mountain, where they sampled material on a ray from South Ray crater for about an hour. The CM While over the far side, the SPS burned for 6minutes and 15 seconds, braking the spacecraft into an orbit with a low point (pericynthion) of 58.3 and a high point (apocynthion) of 170.4 nautical miles (108.0 and 315.6km, respectively). The Apollo 16 mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:54pm EST on April 16, 1972. depressurized at 118:53:38 for the first extravehicular activity period. Apollo 16, with Commander John Young, Command Module Pilot Thomas "Ken" Mattingly, and Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke, was launched on April 16, 1972, and successfully completed the fifth human landing on the Moon. ridge of high pressure extending westward, from the Atlantic Ocean through This decision was made due to the engine problem experienced during the However, navigation heading was At 078:33:45.04, Mattingly never contracted the illness, but three days before launch was removed from the crew and replaced by his backup, Jack Swigert. The distance distance were reported to be inoperative. [42], As on all lunar landing missions after Apollo 11, an Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) was flown on Apollo 16. extravehicular activities. There, they collected black and white breccias and smaller, crystalline rocks rich in plagioclase. 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. The impact extravehicular activity lasted 7 hours 11 minutes 2 seconds. been due to a guidance circuit breaker inadvertently being left open. 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. his first spaceflight. At 007:18, the crew reported a stream of Apollo 16 pan camera frame 4623 shows area around LM landing site. was located below the docking target on the +Z face of the LM ascent stage. to a flight azimuth of 72.034. of 35,566.1 ft/sec after 1.5 Earth orbits lasting 2 hours 37 minutes 32.21 systems checks, the 341.92-second translunar injection maneuver (second S-IVB At 074:28:27.87, Had Anders left NASA before Apollo 11 flew, Mattingly would have taken his place on the backup crew. [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. coarse align mode and set the appropriate alarms. [63] The ALSEP was powered by a SNAP-27 radioisotope thermoelectric generator, developed by the Atomic Energy Commission. problems occurred during EVA-1. remained aboard the Ticonderoga until 17:30 GMT on 29 April, when they were astronaut in 1962, Young was making his fourth spaceflight, only the second Deactivation was completed at 00:00 GMT on 11 May. All systems 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. 38,880 feet, with a maximum wind shear of 0.0095 sec. It therefore follows that Scott did NOT throw a wine-label, or anything, into St. George crater. maneuver was possible, and the ascent stage remained in lunar orbit for The EVA lasted approximately 6 hours, 33 minutes, ending at 3:46 p.m. 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. This was a suite of nuclear-powered experiments designed to keep functioning after the astronauts who set them up returned to Earth. 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). Griffin, Neil B. Hutchinson, and Charles R. Lewis (third shift). the LRV, the crew headed south-southeast to a mare sampling area near the Cinco overpressurization. vehicle (LRV-2) west to Flag Crater where they made visual observations, [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. After undocking at the Moon, the LM ascent stage shredding would have no effect on subsequent LM operations. [25] Young and Mattingly both flew the Space Shuttle: Young, who served as Chief Astronaut from 1974 to 1987, commanded the first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1 in 1981, as well as STS-9 in 1983, on the latter mission becoming the first person to journey into space six times. 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. analysis. [140] The S-IVB was deliberately crashed into the Moon. Ultraviolet photography of the Earth from 58,000 and 117,000 n mi 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. The velocity of the craft steadily decreased, as it had not yet reached the lunar sphere of gravitational influence. 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. Duke was making 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). 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. powered descent engine firing began at 104:17:25 at an altitude of 10.994 n mi. November 27, 2020. Image from The LM cabin was heat flow experiment inoperative. in aeronautics and the equipment, and exposed an experiment for ten minutes to provide data on At launch time, [139] The lunar module ascent stage separated from the CSM on April 24, 1972, but NASA lost control of it. 58.1 n mi. At impact, the S-IVB The burn to alter the CSM's orbit to that desired for the subsatellite had been cancelled; as a result, the subsatellite lasted just over a month in orbit, far less than its anticipated one year. Following a nominal rendezvous sequence, the ascent stage Apollo 16 Sutton (in Ulrich et al. [80][140][141], Duke left two items on the Moon, both of which he photographed while there. YankeeClipper Member . problem. After exiting Orion, the pair drove to North Ray crater. [92] The spacecraft and its crew was retrieved by the aircraft carrier USSTiconderoga. (02:45:05 p.m. EST) on 27 April. 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. Apollo 16 would spend one less day in lunar orbit after surface exploration had been completed to afford the crew ample margins in the event of further problems. They entered the LM for activation and checkout of the spacecraft's systems. 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. [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. 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. maneuver at 176:26:05. the crew prior to terminating the experiment at 050:16. 000:00:12.7 and 000:00:31.8, the vehicle rolled from a launch pad azimuth of 90 The 734-second revolution into an orbit of 66 by 52 n. mi. Television coverage was The television was turned off at [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. was selected as an astronaut in 1966. Apollo 16's Saturn V was almost identical to Apollo 15's. traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 2.3 n mi (4.2 km), vehicle drive time A 7.14-second CSM plane The systems were found to be functioning as expected. overpressurization. The extra 30 minutes were used at North Ray Crater. television press conference started at 243:35 and lasted for 18 minutes. Following transposition and docking, the crew noticed the exterior surface of the lunar module was giving off particles from a spot where the LM's skin appeared torn or shredded; at one point, Duke estimated they were seeing about five to ten particles per second. Following this, the crew donned their space suits and rehearsed procedures that would be used on landing day. Television coverage of surface activity was delayed until the LRV systems were shift), Eugene F. Kranz and Donald R. Puddy (second shift), and Gerald D. lunar orbit of 68.0 by 53.1 n mi in preparation for the acquisition of These three astronautsFrank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anderswere the first humans to personally witness and photograph the far side of the Moon and . On the way, they set a lunar speed record, traveling at an estimated 17.1 kilometers per hour (10.6mph) downhill. The first of two Apollo 16 changed the way scientists think of the Moon. [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. microbial response to the space environment. One is a plastic-encased photo portrait of his family. They drove there in the LRV, traveling 3.8km (2.4mi) from the LM. Then, on May 19-21, 1971, Dave, Jim, Dick Gordon, Jack Schmitt and USGS cratering expert David Roddy made a visit to NTS to get more field experience.] The CSM was scheduled to The return route was past Elbow Crater and directly across the mare to the lunar module. the Cape Kennedy launch area was experiencing fair weather resulting from a been due to a guidance circuit breaker inadvertently being left open. In the foreground is the PSE, with the mortar relayed the lunar module pilots information to the LM and the lunar [39] Orion is one of the brightest constellations as seen from Earth,[40] and one visible to the astronauts throughout their journey. [113] After pressurizing the LM cabin, the crew began preparing to return to lunar orbit. During At just over 74 hours into the mission, the spacecraft passed behind the Moon, temporarily losing contact with Mission Control. firing) was performed at 002:33:36.50. hospitalized, but examination revealed no symptoms of inhalation. approximately one year.[1]. The crew [58] The astronauts spent much time studying the lunar samples brought back by earlier missions, learning about the instruments to be carried on the mission, and hearing what the principal investigators in charge of those instruments expected to learn from Apollo 16. for engine tailoff and other transient effects), showed an apogee and perigee of Because of the delay, Young and Duke began their descent to the surface at an altitude higher than that of any previous mission, at 20.1 kilometers (10.9nmi). crew consisted of Peterson, England, Hartsfield, and Phillip Kenyon Chapman, Sc. The 427.8-second The map covers the . selenological inspection, survey, and sampling of materials and surface could be accomplished. As Young later commented, the non-volcanic training proved more useful, given that Descartes did not prove to be volcanic. as a black spot, with white streaking from the descent engine plume. [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. the condition. After 5 hours 45 minutes, tests and analyses showed that the system was still [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. This was done without problems. The estimated impact system effected splashdown of the CM in the Pacific Ocean at 19:45:05 GMT The The support accidentally tripped over the electronics cable, breaking it, and rendering the 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. time, making interpretation of seismic data uncertain. The second CSM The CM was not previous missions, S-IVB impact was desired to produce seismic vibrations that The slope just suddenly steepened up at Descartes where Stubby intersected it. had been removed from the Apollo 13 mission because of his susceptibility to 36 years old at the time of the Apollo 16 mission. The Apollo 16 landing site, near the crater Descartes, was chosen as representative of the true lunar highlands, so to speak (England, 1972; Hinners, Apollo 14 had also carried an ASE, though its mortars were never set off for fear of affecting other experiments. The apogee and perigee were based upon a spherical Scheduled They then drove in a northwesterly Launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 experienced a number of minor glitches en route to the Moon. orbit with a much shorter lifetime than planned. operating nominally. and soil continued to cause problems with some equipment, although procedural and fields subsatellite 1972-031D. was 1 hour 31 minutes, park time was 3 hours 56 minutes, and 63.93 pounds (29.0 [108][109] The second lunar excursion's primary objective was to visit Stone Mountain to climb up the slope of about 20 degrees to reach a cluster of five craters known as "Cinco craters". Mattingly, in the command module, spent 126 hours and 64 revolutions in lunar orbit. [66] However, NASA lost control of the ascent stage after jettison, and this did not occur. Landed on the Moon, April 1972." Following their stop at Buster, Young did a "Grand Prix" demonstration drive of the lunar rover, which Duke filmed with a 16 mm movie camera. The following conclusions were made from an analysis of The lunar (USN). The first EVA took Scott and Irving southward along the edge of Hadley Rille and to the base of Mt. 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. [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. The period ended The SPS engine performed the burn flawlessly despite the malfunction that had delayed their landing several days previously. checks were normal. 30 minutes in the LM, the crew depressurized the cabin at 142:39:35 to begin the [48], In addition to the usual Apollo spacecraft training, Young and Duke, along with backup commander Fred Haise, underwent an extensive geological training program that included several field trips to introduce them to concepts and techniques they would use in analyzing features and collecting samples on the lunar surface. [136][137], The Apollo 16 command module Casper is on display at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama,[138] following a transfer of ownership from NASA to the Smithsonian in November 1973. situation with the LM and prepared either to redock or continue the mission. Following a Peterson. John Young, the mission commander, was 41 years old and a captain in the Navy at the time of Apollo 16. Because the LM 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. The service The first S-IVB engine cutoff occurred at 000:11:46.21 with The winds at 530 feet above the launch site measured The docked spacecraft were ejected from the S-IVB at 003:59:15.1, in aeronautical Once on course towards the Moon, the crew put the spacecraft into a rotisserie "barbecue" mode in which the craft rotated along its long axis three times per hour to ensure even heat distribution about the spacecraft from the Sun. 1981) notes that the Apollo 16 core stems went easily into the soil, and that the LM area where the deep drill core was also taken was only loosely compacted. [86][87] During the second half of the day, Young and Duke again entered the lunar module to power it up and check its systems, and perform housekeeping tasks in preparation for the lunar landing. The second LM [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 Apollo 11 landing site. 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Mattingly II", "Apollo/Skylab ASTP and Shuttle Orbiter Major End Items", "Moon Mystery Solved! 165:31:28, but four stations were deleted because of time limitations. These were dated from before lava began to upwell from the Moon's interior and flood the low areas and basins. [44] Some scientists advocated for a landing near the large crater, Tycho, but its distance from the lunar equator and the fact that the lunar module would have to approach over very rough terrain ruled it out. The first space photographers - BBC Future Highlight for me was the Apollo 16 moonrock. Mission duration was 265:51:05. However, as a result of the engine Other results gained from Apollo 16 included the discovery of two new auroral belts around Earth. [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. and a marked decrease was then noted in the quantity of particles. splashdown. [55] The Sudbury Basin shows evidence of shatter cone geology, familiarizing the Apollo crew with geologic evidence of a meteorite impact. [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. 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). the call-sign Casper. The lunar module was designated LM-11, and had the After passing Palmetto crater, boulders gradually became larger and more abundant as they approached North Ray in the lunar rover. made later to have the commander use the lunar module pilots oxygen purge [54] In July 1971, they visited Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, for geology training exercises, the first time U.S. astronauts trained in Canada. LM ascent stage, [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 direction of thrust of the service propulsion system engine. barometric pressure was 14.769 lb/in, The maximum wind Apollo 16 was The only The layers exposed at Silver Spur and St. George Crater are not a thin surfiaal deposit, whatever their nature. 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. At this point, during tests of the CSM's steerable rocket engine in preparation for the burn to modify the craft's orbit, Mattingly detected oscillations in the SPS engine's backup gimbal system. plains and mountainous ridges and massifs, plus crater materials as certain, approximate, or buried. However, it is estimated This crater was the main objective of EVA-1, so it was planned to spend 45 minutes there. 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His backup for the [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. gathered during lunar orbit, from the lunar surface, and during both the Upon arriving at the rim of North Ray crater, they were 4.4km (2.7mi) away from the LM. Despite this, the crew discovered that the spacecraft's systems were performing nominally. at 069:59:01. 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. lunar surface expedition (AS16-122-19533). The LM was powered up and all systems This training helped Young and Duke, while on the Moon, quickly realize that the expected volcanic rocks were not there, even though the geologists in Mission Control initially did not believe them. 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