Click to open image viewer. This plaque is a replica of the one left on the Moon by the crew of Apollo 16, who landed on the lunar surface on April 20, 1972. While command module pilot Ken Mattingly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the ...

Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, is photographed collecting lunar samples near North Ray Crater during the third Apollo 16 spacewalk at the Descartes landing ...

The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has completed the annual cleaning of the Apollo 16 Command module. The work ensures the display is preserved for generations to come. The archives team handles the ...

[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...

Imagine: you spent years training for a sojourn to the Moon, flew there on top of a Saturn V rocket as part of Apollo 16, to ultimately land on the lunar surface. You then spend the next few days on ...

America’s most daring, extraordinary feat — landing astronauts on the moon — remains the pinnacle of achievement by anyone ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) - Charlie Duke, a former astronaut living in the Upstate, spoke with FOX Carolina about his experience traveling to the Moon on Apollo 16. Duke was born in Charlotte ...

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. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series on Space.com] ...