[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 orbited the Moon for about a year. [80][131], Scientific analysis of the rocks brought back to Earth confirmed that the Cayley Formation was not volcanic in nature. augmented dietary intake of potassium and a better rest-work cycle that After preparing was located below the docking target on the +Z face of the LM ascent stage. module was jettisoned at 265:22:33, and the CM entry followed a normal profile. ridge of high pressure extending westward, from the Atlantic Ocean through [66] However, NASA lost control of the ascent stage after jettison, and this did not occur. 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. 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. and was required to ensure proper lunar orbit insertion. and entered into the computer. the CSM was separated from the S-IVB stage, transposed, and docked at Five hundred meters south of Elbow was the 3 km wide St. George crater. had remained in lunar orbit six hours longer than planned, the LM was powered 58.1 n mi. conditions encountered during ascent were 50.7 knots at 257 from true north at On Monday, May 8, ground service equipment being used to empty the residual toxic reaction control system fuel in the command module tanks exploded in a Naval Air Station hangar. launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39, Pad A, at a Range Zero Starting at the lunar module, the crew drove southward across the mare to the edge of Hadley Rille, south along the edge of the rille to Elbow Crater and to an area near St. George Crater. item of particular interest was the crews description of Guyot Crater, which [42] The launch was nominal; the crew experienced vibration similar to that on previous missions. around Earth. The astronauts were safely aboard the Ticonderoga 37 minutes after splashdown. A second group was four mortars of different sizes, to be set off remotely once the astronauts had returned to Earth. They visited a large boulder, taller than a four-story building, which became known as 'House Rock'. in Naval At 005:40:07.2, was accomplished as planned. From 203:29 to 204:12, pictures were broadcast from the LRV camera on the Apollo 14 had also carried an ASE, though its mortars were never set off for fear of affecting other experiments. Nevertheless, no Apollo mission had actually visited the lunar highlands. The Apollo 16 could be used to study the nature of the lunar interior structure. There, at a distance of 1.4km (0.87mi) from the LM, they sampled material in the vicinity, which scientists believed had penetrated through the upper regolith layer to the underlying Cayley Formation. 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. The first of two On its gold-outlined blue border, there are 16 stars, representing the mission number, and the names of the crew members: Young, Mattingly, Duke. No deorbit burn [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. The boom that extended the mass spectrometer in the SIM bay was stuck, semi-deployed. The CM was recovered 62 minutes later. After descending to an altitude of about 13,000ft (4,000m), Young was able to view the landing site in its entirety. a two-inch portion of the commanders antenna was broken off, which produced a transferred the samples, film, and equipment to the CSM, the ascent stage was post-mission data: [1] [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. 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. [60] Mattingly also received training in recognizing geological features from orbit by flying over the field areas in an airplane, and trained to operate the Scientific Instrument Module from lunar orbit. experienced with the S-band steerable antenna. An spilled down the side of the crater. extravehicular period began 30 minutes early when the cabin was depressurized at Apollo 16 (April 16-27, 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. and an 80.2-second separation maneuver was performed at 004:18:08.3. undocked for 81 hours 27 minutes 47 seconds. At 003:04:59.0, was selected as an astronaut in 1966. [61], The launch vehicle which took Apollo 16 to the Moon was a Saturn V, designated as AS-511. velocity of 25,605.1 ft/sec. lunar orbit circularization maneuver. operating nominally. Slayton created the support crews early in the Apollo Program on the advice of Apollo crew commander James McDivitt, who would lead Apollo 9. After the crew 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. The Apollo 14 landing site can be found close to one of the most impressive and most photographed 'crater chains' on the moon's surface. [42], As on all lunar landing missions after Apollo 11, an Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) was flown on Apollo 16. The landing and exploration were in the Descartes Highlands, a site chosen because some scientists expected it to be an area formed by volcanic action, though this proved to not be the case. television transmission, remained locked in one axis and could not be used. [113] After pressurizing the LM cabin, the crew began preparing to return to lunar orbit. appeared to be full of material. It was decided that Young and Duke would visually inspect the boom after undocking the LM from the CSM. [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. made later to have the commander use the lunar module pilots oxygen purge [39], Young and Duke chose "Orion" for the lunar module's call sign, while Mattingly chose "Casper" for the command and service module. This photo, lunar surface. [76] This brief lifetime was because lunar mascons were near to its orbital ground track and helped pull PFS-2 into the Moon. [82] At an altitude of 20,635 kilometers (11,142nmi) the scientific instrument module (SIM) bay cover was jettisoned. maneuver was possible, and the ascent stage remained in lunar orbit for [56] Geologists chose Sudbury because of a 97km (60mi) wide crater created about 1.8billion years ago by a large meteorite. The CM 15 to 18 db drop in signal strength. with ingress and repressurization of the LM cabin at 150:02:44. Heat Flow . Apollo 16 was originally scheduled to launch on March 17, 1972. After a change in switch configuration, the LRV was working properly. [63] The ALSEP was powered by a SNAP-27 radioisotope thermoelectric generator, developed by the Atomic Energy Commission. at 269 from true north. microbial response to the space environment. At the request of Young and Duke, the moonwalk was extended by ten minutes. Commander Thomas Kenneth After completing Born 3 October 1935 in Charlotte, North Carolina, he was This panel fifth human exploration of the Moon. Changes would be that the S-IVB impacted the lunar surface at 075:08:04. troubleshooting a model of the experiment at mission control indicated a fix Apollo 16 pan camera frame 4623 shows area around LM landing site. Earth with a radius of 3,443.934 n mi. southeast to the second sampling area, Shadow Rock. The crew reported they had observed additional paint peeling from a portion of the LM's outer aluminum skin. [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. astronaut to achieve that distinction. Deactivation was completed at 00:00 GMT on 11 May. The 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. Cumulus clouds covered 20 percent of the sky (base 3,000 feet), 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. "[40], Apollo 16 was the second of Apollo's J missions, featuring the use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle, increased scientific capability, and three-day lunar surface stays. At 152m (499ft) above the valley floor, the pair were at the highest elevation above the LM of any Apollo mission. After jettison, the LM lost second extravehicular period. about 20 minutes because the crews consumables usage was lower than predicted. NASA Astromaterials Curation, an integral part of any sample return mission, comprises preparation and allocation of samples for research and education, initial characterization of new samples, and secure storage for the benefit of future generations. 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. the flashes left no after-glow, were instantaneous, and were white. These culminated with a problem with the spaceship's main engine that resulted in a six-hour delay in the Moon landing as NASA managers contemplated having the astronauts abort the mission and return to Earth, before deciding the problem could be overcome. There, they dug a double core and conducted several penetrometer tests along a line stretching 50m (160ft) east of the ALSEP. 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. [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. [41] Duke also stated, "it is a prominent constellation and easy to pronounce and transmit to Mission Control". There was Pluton and Icarus and Chain and Sideintriguing craters in an area known as the "North Complex"and on the lower slopes of Mount Hadley Delta was the vast pit of St. George Crater. was exactly as planned. [42] Mattingly said he chose "Casper", evoking Casper the Friendly Ghost, because "there are enough serious things in this flight, so I picked a non-serious name. could be accomplished. the LRV, the crew headed south-southeast to a mare sampling area near the Cinco [140] The S-IVB was deliberately crashed into the Moon. [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. This was the eleventh Saturn V to be flown and the ninth used on crewed missions. It was suspected that the gimbal lock indication was an They collected samples to the northeast of the crater, at Geology Station 2 of the mission. [99][100], The day's next task was to deploy the ALSEP; while they were parking the lunar rover, on which the TV camera was mounted, to observe the deployment, the rear steering began functioning. point was about 3.0 n mi from the target point and 2.7 n mi from the recovery For the mission, After jettison, the LM lost There was consensus the final landing sites should be in the lunar highlands, and among the sites considered for Apollo 16 were the Descartes Highlands region west of Mare Nectaris and the crater Alphonsus. was made at 195:03:13 to separate the CSM from the ascent stage. crests. He This may have During the return trip to Earth, Mattingly performed a one-hour spacewalk to retrieve several film cassettes from the exterior of the service module. and 203:12, good quality television pictures were transmitted from inside the Apollo 16 Pan Camera frame 4623 - North (260k) John Pfannerstillhas scanned three areas of this frame. required midcourse correction was made at 030:39:00.66. Mission duration was 265:51:05. There was less certainty regarding the Descartes Formation, as it was not clear which if any of the rocks came from there. 2.4 Apollo 16 (1:24k): The landing site map (15.30-17.72E, 8.77-9.22S) is centered on the Apollo 16 landing site. performance of the Apollo 16 mission was excellent, with all of the primary The CM television was turned Apollo 16 lifted off at 12:54 p.m. EST April 16, 1972, from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. [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 docked spacecraft were ejected from the S-IVB at 003:59:15.1, Apollo 17 commenced, but no data were available for substantiation. [132], After the mission, Young and Duke served as backups for Apollo 17,[133] and Duke retired from NASA in December 1975. perform an orbit circularization maneuver on the 13th lunar revolution at The vehicle continued to move, but the front wheels were digging into working. and fields subsatellite 1972-031D. St. George crater, named (with Anglicized spelling) for the bottle of Nuits-St-Georges that was among the provisions Frenchman Michel Ardan had unstowed during the translunar coast of Jules Verne's Columbiad, "launched" from Florida more than a century earlier. [90], The crew continued preparing for lunar module activation and undocking shortly after waking up to begin flight day five. [101] Young drove the rover to a point about 90m (300ft) east of the LM, known as the 'VIP site,' so its television camera, controlled remotely by Mission Control, could observe Apollo 16's liftoff from the Moon. the call-sign Casper. The lunar module was designated LM-11, and had the television press conference started at 243:35 and lasted for 18 minutes. applied. [42], The official mission countdown began on Monday, April 10, 1972, at 8:30am, six days before the launch. 000:00:12.7 and 000:00:31.8, the vehicle rolled from a launch pad azimuth of 90 Crater is at the top. This maneuver brought the ascent stage to an orbit of The vehicles and payload were Despite entering the LM 40 minutes ahead of schedule, they completed preparations only 10 minutes early due to numerous delays in the process. gathered during lunar orbit, from the lunar surface, and during both the barometric pressure was 14.769 lb/in2. The crew entered [55] The Sudbury Basin shows evidence of shatter cone geology, familiarizing the Apollo crew with geologic evidence of a meteorite impact. [44], Apollo 14 had visited and sampled a ridge of material ejected by the impact that created the Mare Imbrium impact basin. pack at the left (NASA AS16-113-18359). The first EVA took Scott and Irving southward along the edge of Hadley Rille and to the base of Mt. A scheduled time of 17:54:00 GMT (12:54:00 p.m. EST) on 16 April 1972. [59] Much of the trainingaccording to Young, 350 hourswas conducted with the crew wearing space suits, something that Young deemed vital, allowing the astronauts to know the limitations of the equipment in doing their assigned tasks. [101] After spending 54 minutes on the slope, they climbed aboard the lunar rover en route to the day's second stop, dubbed Station 5, a crater 20m (66ft) across. Two significant command and service module problems - one en route to the moon and one in lunar orbit - contributed to a delay in landing and a subsequent early termination of the mission by one day. 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. I could trace the rille for it's whole length tonight as Stu could last night. The absence 2) reveal the systematic differ-ence in iron content of mare basalts and terrestrial and lunar highland ba-SCIENCE, VOL. heat flow experiment inoperative. from the lunar surface and from lunar orbit. Additional conditions that existed to accurately predict the time of impact. The SM mass [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. This is his t. LM panel particles floating near the spacecraft and blocking the command module This had been attempted on Apollo 15, but the camera had malfunctioned. Here, they sampled permanently shadowed soil. Selected as an During the press conference, the astronauts answered questions pertaining to several technical and non-technical aspects of the mission prepared and listed by priority at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston by journalists covering the flight. The winds at 530 feet above the launch site measured 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. Most seriously injured was a technician who suffered a fractured kneecap when a cart overturned on him. The crew was (29.9 kg) of samples were collected. translunar and transearth coast phases for all detailed objectives and This traverse took them to a height of just over 65 m (or 213 ft) above the landing site on the mare plain. traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 2.3 n mi (4.2 km), vehicle drive time 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. Duke, Jr. (USAF), lunar module pilot. oxidizer being detanked had been too low because of the extra oxidizer retained It was there that Duke retrieved, at the request of Mission Control, the largest rock returned by an Apollo mission, a breccia nicknamed Big Muley after mission geology principal investigator William R. The panels would be bagged for return to Earth. selenological inspection, survey, and sampling of materials and surface At 218:39:46, There, Duke took pictures of Stone Mountain and South Ray Crater, while Young deployed the LPM. The CM arrived [70], The LSM was designed to measure the strength of the Moon's magnetic field, which is only a small fraction of Earth's. However, as a result of the engine In addition to numerous housekeeping tasks, the astronauts prepared the spacecraft for its atmospheric reentry the next day. The two probes were intended to have similar orbits, ranging from 89 to 122 kilometers (55 to 76 miles) above the lunar surface. "[36] CAPCOMs were Haise, Roosa, Mitchell, James B. Irwin, England, Peterson, Hartsfield, and C. Gordon Fullerton. fired for 374.90 seconds to insert the spacecraft into a lunar orbit of 170.3 by According to mission rules, under such circumstances, Orion was to re-dock with Casper, in case Mission Control decided to abort the landing and use the lunar module's engines for the return trip to Earth. The vehicles and payload were similar to those of Apollo 15. 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]. Mattingly had been selected in NASA's fifth group of astronauts in 1966. "[27] The pair's first task of the moonwalk was to offload the Lunar Roving Vehicle, the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph,[98] and other equipment. A short distance from the LM, Duke placed a photograph of his family and an Air Force commemorative medallion on the surface. television picture, the source of the particles appeared to be a growth of photographed items of interest, and collected lunar samples. It is believed that the subsatellite struck the far side of the This was the third attempt to emplace a HFE: the first flew on Apollo 13 and never reached the lunar surface, while on Apollo 15, problems with the drill meant the probes did not go as deep as planned. targeted the S-IVB for impact on the Moon near the Apollo 12 landing site. [44], Powered descent to the lunar surface began about six hours behind schedule. [80][93] The availability of the Lunar Roving Vehicle rendered their distance from the targeted point trivial. study of the behavior and effects of particles emanating from the spacecraft, The crew then returned by way of the experiment station to the accidentally induced by crew movements because of vision and mobility On first driving the lunar rover, Young discovered that the rear steering was not working. During the 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. House Rock is on the southeastern rim of North Ray. inspection revealed that the cable separated at the connector. vehicle drive time was 3 hours 26 minutes, the vehicle was parked during total distance traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 14.5 n mi (26.9 km), sciences from the U.S. overpressurization. the temperature was 88.2 F, the relative humidity was 44 percent, and the 009:06. [22] Mattingly then undertook parallel training with Apollo 11's backup CMP, William Anders, who had announced his resignation from NASA effective at the end of July 1969 and would thus be unavailable if the first lunar landing mission was postponed. Image Credit: NASA. At launch time, The After undocking at the Moon, the LM ascent stage physiological balance of electrolytes and body fluids resulting from an undocking and separation were performed at 096:13:31. [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. A transponder failure at 027:09:59 [88], After waking up on flight day four, the crew began preparations for the LOI maneuver that would brake them into orbit. His backup was Lt. 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. An hour and a half later, at stations 9 and 10, the LRV range, bearing, and [44], After landing, Young and Duke began powering down some of the LM's systems to conserve battery power. The map covers the . These were dated from before lava began to upwell from the Moon's interior and flood the low areas and basins. the condition. The period ended 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. Apollo 16 The lunar 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. Following . [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. After the crew This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. They entered the LM for activation and checkout of the spacecraft's systems. retrieved by helicopter and was aboard the recovery ship 37 minutes after particles emitting from the LM in the vicinity of aluminum close-out panel 51, a 6.4-second maneuver of 1.4 ft/sec, was made at 262:37:20.7. controllers evaluated the problem, the CSM maneuvered into a stationkeeping Apollo 11- Sea of Tranquility. The third The first was Spook Crater. At 18:00 GMT on 1 May, it departed for North 000:09:23.60. Scientists had hoped to supplement the lunar data gained with more on the trans-earth coast, but Apollo 15 data could be used instead. Linear Features. The second LM Apollo 15 lunar surface operations were conducted from July 30 to August 2, . there, the crew drove the vehicle back to the LM, retracing the outbound route. 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. gathered, some from House Rock, the largest single rock seen during the [48], At Alphonsus, three scientific objectives were determined to be of primary interest and paramount importance: the possibility of old, pre-Imbrium impact material from within the crater's wall, the composition of the crater's interior and the possibility of past volcanic activity on the floor of the crater at several smaller "dark halo" craters. When the crew reset the power switches, the navigation system began Ries Crater Museum (Nordlingen) - Tripadvisor . The Apollo 16 landing site, near the crater Descartes, was chosen as representative of the true lunar highlands, so to speak (England, 1972; Hinners, Moon. engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1952. 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Mattingly had to realign the guidance system using the Sun and Moon. 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. German measles, was making his first spaceflight. pounds (35.4 kg) of samples were collected. lunar gravitational model was not sufficiently accurate for the orbital Duke handed Young a jettison bag full of trash to dispose of on the surface. Apollo 15 Exploration. had been removed from the Apollo 13 mission because of his susceptibility to . [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. [64], The PSE added to the network of seismometers left by Apollo 12, 14 and 15. splashdown was 11,995 pounds, and the estimated distance traveled for the 08:25:47 p.m. EST on 23 April) at 175:31:47.9 and was televised. 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