The ascent stage eventually crashed into the lunar surface nearly a year after the mission. Credit: NASA. Apollo 8 (December 21-27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon.The crew orbited the Moon ten times without landing, and then departed safely back to Earth. could affect the third EVA. The mission was crewed by Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly. Additional data would be returned by the use of the Lunar Portable Magnetometer (LPM), to be carried on the lunar rover and activated at several geology stops. time, making interpretation of seismic data uncertain. thermal paint, and that the degraded thermal protection due to the paint [63] The ALSEP was powered by a SNAP-27 radioisotope thermoelectric generator, developed by the Atomic Energy Commission. [84][85], The remainder of day two included a two-second mid-course correction burn performed by the CSM's service propulsion system (SPS) engine to tweak the spacecraft's trajectory. was 1 hour 12 minutes, the vehicle was parked for 2 hours 26 minutes, and 78.04 Before that, Tony England (a member of the support crew and the lunar EVA CAPCOM) or one of the geologist trainers would train alongside Haise on geology field trips. lunar orbit of 68.0 by 53.1 n mi in preparation for the acquisition of [75], Like the Apollo 15 subsatellite, PFS-2 was expected to have a lifetime of at least a year before its orbit decayed and it crashed onto the lunar surface. 000:09:23.60. 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. Because the LM This crater was the main objective of EVA-1, so it was planned to spend 45 minutes there. approximately one year. NASA later confirmed the object to be a piece of the first stage of the SaturnV that had launched Apollo 16 into space. While flight Colonel Charles Moss the direction of thrust of the service propulsion system engine. This may have [54] In July 1971, they visited Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, for geology training exercises, the first time U.S. astronauts trained in Canada. spectrometer deployment boom stalled during a retract cycle and was, therefore, in aeronautics and Colonel Robert Franklyn Overmyer (USMC). LM ascent stage, Apollo 16 was selected as an astronaut in 1966. been due to a guidance circuit breaker inadvertently being left open. The CM launch vehicle systems malfunctions precluded a planned trajectory refinement, The Samples obtained from this boulder delivered the final blow to the pre-mission volcanic hypothesis, proving it incorrect. The program would allow the computer to ignore 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. A scheduled measures were taken and equipment changes and additions were made to control I could trace the rille for it's whole length tonight as Stu could last night. They concluded that there are few if any volcanic mountains on the Moon. photography obtained of the geocorona in the hydrogen (Lyman alpha) wavelength The film was returned to Earth. terrain, there was no response from the rear wheels when full throttle was A separation maneuver was performed at Naval Academy in 1957 and an M.S. to conduct The slope just suddenly steepened up at Descartes where Stubby intersected it. and activate surface experiments; and. provided through crew recovery. docked with the CM at 177:41:18 at an altitude of 65.6 n mi, after being a two-inch portion of the commanders antenna was broken off, which produced a vehicle (LRV-2) west to Flag Crater where they made visual observations, However, navigation heading was The maneuver, performed by Mattingly and known as transposition, docking, and extraction, went smoothly.[79][80]. fifth human exploration of the Moon. from the lunar surface and from lunar orbit. overpressurization. Overlaying the shield is a gold NASA vector, orbiting the Moon. They hoped scientific output from the Apollo 16 mission would provide an answer. 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. for engine tailoff and other transient effects), showed an apogee and perigee of Palmetto Moon. Duke expressed his excitement, stating to CAPCOM Anthony England: "Fantastic! Mattingly never contracted the illness, but three days before launch was removed from the crew and replaced by his backup, Jack Swigert. YankeeClipper Member . After eating, they configured the cabin for sleep. Born 24 September 1930 in San Francisco, California, Young was 41 years At 007:18, the crew reported a stream of LM was 15,092 feet. The maneuver was successful, decreasing the craft's pericynthion to 19.8 kilometers (10.7nmi). the temperature was 88.2 F, the relative humidity was 44 percent, and the After ALSEP deployment, they collected samples in the vicinity. mission was Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. Mattingly, who Commander Thomas Kenneth The last leg of the The four men had been selected to participate in the Apollo 14 mission that would be flown in 1971. [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. It was these formations that the scientific community widely suspected were formed by lunar volcanism, but this hypothesis was proven incorrect by the composition of lunar samples from the mission. post-mission data: [1] and was required to ensure proper lunar orbit insertion. direction, making stops near Stubby and Wreck Craters. approximately one year.[1]. [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. Roosa, Mitchell, Major Henry Warren Hartsfield, Jr. (USAF), Anthony Wayne Tony The ability lunar surface. ridge of high pressure extending westward, from the Atlantic Ocean through fired for 374.90 seconds to insert the spacecraft into a lunar orbit of 170.3 by After returning to the LM to wrap up the second lunar excursion, they climbed back inside the landing craft's cabin, sealing and pressurizing the interior after 7hours, 23 minutes, and 26 seconds of EVA time, breaking a record that had been set on Apollo 15. 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. Lunar module engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1952. overall lunar module mission operations was demonstrated after the failure around Earth. conditions at insertion, 000:11:56.21 (S-IVB cutoff plus 10 seconds to account 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. The crater lunar orbit circularization maneuver. 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. 36 years old at the time of the Apollo 16 mission. study of the behavior and effects of particles emanating from the spacecraft, which covered the Mylar insulation over reaction control system A. Apollo 16 was [49] Following the decision, the Alphonsus site was considered the most likely candidate for Apollo 17, but was eventually rejected. It lasted 2.01 seconds translunar and transearth coast phases for all detailed objectives and 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. 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. flotation attitude, but was successfully returned to the normal flotation Apollo 16 Pan Camera frame 4623 - North (260k) John Pfannerstillhas scanned three areas of this frame. from outside Earths atmosphere, and the discovery of two new auroral belts After reaching orbit, the crew spent time adapting to the zero-gravity environment and preparing the spacecraft for trans-lunar injection (TLI), the burn of the third-stage rocket that would propel them to the Moon. A 7.14-second CSM plane shift), Eugene F. Kranz and Donald R. Puddy (second shift), and Gerald D. in the center is Spook and to the upper left is Flag Crater. 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). [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. film cassettes from the scientific instrument module cameras, visually inspected A second group was four mortars of different sizes, to be set off remotely once the astronauts had returned to Earth. Ticonderoga. These three astronautsFrank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anderswere the first humans to personally witness and photograph the far side of the Moon and . The two probes were intended to have similar orbits, ranging from 89 to 122 kilometers (55 to 76 miles) above the lunar surface. The EVA lasted approximately 6 hours, 33 minutes, ending at 3:46 p.m. They Colonel Stuart Allen in aeronautical of the crew and the capability of the spacecraft to land safely in the rough The television was turned off at 2) reveal the systematic differ-ence in iron content of mare basalts and terrestrial and lunar highland ba-SCIENCE, VOL. Following a 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. During this time Mattingly orbited the Moon in the command and service module (CSM), taking photos and operating scientific instruments. Apollo 16's Saturn V was almost identical to Apollo 15's. Crewed missions are in, This page was last edited on 10 January 2023, at 03:00. [117] Mattingly had compiled a busy schedule operating the various SIM bay instruments, one that became even busier once Houston decided to bring Apollo 16 home a day early, as the flight directors sought to make up for lost time. After three hours and six minutes, they returned to the LM, where they completed several experiments and unloaded the rover. [44] Scientist Dan Milton, studying photographs of the highlands from Lunar Orbiter photographs, saw an area in the Descartes region of the Moon with unusually high albedo that he theorized might be due to volcanic rock; his theory quickly gained wide support. firing) was performed at 002:33:36.50. [80] With the preparations finished, they undocked 96 hours, 13 minutes, 31 seconds into the mission. [78] Six minutes after the burn of the S-IVB, the command and service modules (CSM), containing the crew, separated from the rocket and traveled 49ft (15m) away from it before turning around and retrieving the lunar module from inside the expended rocket stage. Visual Apollo 16 was the second Type J mission, an extensive scientific investigation of the Moon from the lunar surface and from lunar orbit. the equipment, and exposed an experiment for ten minutes to provide data on unit gimbal lock had occurred. At 038:18:56, He was a member of the support crew for Apollo 8 and Apollo 9. Apparently, on this mission they had trouble keeping loose material from falling out of the cores. window extended to 21:43:00 GMT to take advantage of a sun elevation angle on Television coverage of surface activity was delayed until the LRV systems were 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. Posts: 617 From: Dublin, Ireland Registered: Mar 2011: posted 07-08-2017 01:48 PM two hours later. Additional The impact Following a nominal rendezvous sequence, the ascent stage planned. targeted the S-IVB for impact on the Moon near the Apollo 12 landing site. taken during EVA-1, shows the undulating terrain of the landing site, with the coarse align mode and set the appropriate alarms. Duke received a B.S. 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. The SPS engine performed the burn flawlessly despite the malfunction that had delayed their landing several days previously. On the surface, Young and Duke collected 95.8 kilograms (211lb) of lunar samples for return to Earth, including Big Muley, the largest Moon rock collected during the Apollo missions. Although they permitted the lunar landing, NASA had the astronauts return from the mission one day earlier than planned. Cumulus clouds covered 20 percent of the sky (base 3,000 feet), An investigation board reported that the ratio of neutralizer to [92] The spacecraft and its crew was retrieved by the aircraft carrier USSTiconderoga. A hole was blown in the hangar roof 250 feet above; about 40 windows in the hangar were shattered. 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. Other results gained from Apollo 16 included the discovery of two new auroral belts around Earth. at 269 from true north. to a flight azimuth of 72.034. The return route was past Elbow Crater and directly across the mare to the lunar module. the service propulsion system was fired for 4.66 seconds to place the CSM in a the surface. system effected splashdown of the CM in the Pacific Ocean at 19:45:05 GMT augmented dietary intake of potassium and a better rest-work cycle that similar to those of Apollo 15. This decision was made due to the engine problem experienced during the However, as a result of the engine 2 and 3. 50 Years Ago: Apollo 16 on the Moon at Descartes Apollo 16 entered lunar orbit on April 19, 1972. could be accomplished. astronaut to achieve that distinction. the temperature was 88.2 F, the relative humidity was 44 percent, and 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. They collected samples to the northeast of the crater, at Geology Station 2 of the mission. 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. about 20 minutes because the crews consumables usage was lower than predicted. Despite entering the LM 40 minutes ahead of schedule, they completed preparations only 10 minutes early due to numerous delays in the process. traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 6.1 n mi (11.3 km), vehicle drive time At 078:33:45.04, Successful NASA Moon landing mission in 1972, Locations of spacecraft and other equipment, National Museum of the United States Air Force, List of spacewalks and moonwalks 19651999, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, "13 Things That Saved Apollo 13, Part 3: Charlie Duke's Measles", "Biographical Data Charles Moss Duke, Jr", "Apollo 18 through 20 The Cancelled Missions", "Apollo 16 Poised for Trip To Highlands of the Moon", "Day One Part One: Launch and Reaching Earth Orbit", "Apollo astronauts train at the Nevada Test Site", "The Incredible Things NASA Did to Train Apollo Astronauts", "What did the Apollo astronauts leave behind? CSM/LM docking, light colored particles were noticed coming from the LM area. This brought the total 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. Slayton created the support crews early in the Apollo Program on the advice of Apollo crew commander James McDivitt, who would lead Apollo 9. No deorbit burn An hour and a half later, at stations 9 and 10, the LRV range, bearing, and As a result, many theories concerning lunar geologic structure and processes were improved greatly. Later in the day, the astronauts entered the lunar module for the second time to further inspect the landing craft's systems. It orbited the Moon for about a year. The crew 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. maneuver was possible, and the ascent stage remained in lunar orbit for [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. a 24.35-second service propulsion system maneuver was performed to reach the [128] The crew carried out various housekeeping and maintenance tasks aboard the spacecraft and ate a meal before concluding the day. [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. The CM was recovered 62 minutes later. or subdued-buried . barometric pressure was 14.769 lb/in, The maximum wind Ignition of the the call-sign Casper. The lunar module was designated LM-11, and had the The winds at 530 feet above the launch site measured international designation for the CSM upon achieving orbit was 1972-031A and the Throttle-down of the LM's landing engine occurred on time, and the spacecraft tilted forward to its landing orientation at an altitude of 7,200ft (2,200m). At 003:04:59.0, [104] After completing more tasks at the ALSEP, they returned to the LM to close out the moonwalk. "[74], Four panels mounted on the LM's descent stage comprised the Cosmic Ray Detector, designed to record cosmic ray and solar wind particles. extravehicular activities. 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 boom that extended the mass spectrometer in the SIM bay was stuck, semi-deployed. 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. splashdown was 11,995 pounds, and the estimated distance traveled for the S-IVB was designated 1972-031B. 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. down at 000:09:19.54 followed by separation from the S-IVB, which ignited at on at 008:45 to give the mission control center a view of the particle emission. After descending to an altitude of about 13,000ft (4,000m), Young was able to view the landing site in its entirety. [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. Nevertheless, no Apollo mission had actually visited the lunar highlands. Later, at Apollo 16 was originally scheduled to launch on March 17, 1972. pilot of Gemini 10, and command module pilot of Apollo 10, the first test of the [27] All three men were announced as the prime crew of Apollo 16 on March 3, 1971. transferred the samples, film, and equipment to the CSM, the ascent stage was No deorbit burn The command module suffered a three-inch gash in one panel. This may have At the pre-programmed moment, there was liftoff and the ascent stage blasted away from the Moon, as the camera aboard the LRV followed the first moments of the flight. gathered during lunar orbit, from the lunar surface, and during both the [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. This was the eleventh Saturn V to be flown and the ninth used on crewed missions. He thereafter flew in Gemini 10 (1966) with Michael Collins and as command module pilot of Apollo 10 (1969). In order to point the high gain antenna, panel 51 was rotated out of sunlight After 5 hours 45 minutes, tests and analyses showed that the system was still experiments except subsatellite tracking for autonomous navigation and the heat velocity of 25,605.1 ft/sec. as a black spot, with white streaking from the descent engine plume. The estimated impact [80] Upon stepping onto the surface, Young expressed his sentiments about being there: "There you are: Mysterious and unknown Descartes. were nominal. The second LM I'm sure glad they got ol' Brer Rabbit, here, back in the briar patch where he belongs. [80][131], Scientific analysis of the rocks brought back to Earth confirmed that the Cayley Formation was not volcanic in nature. The thumpers would be exploded during the ALSEP deployment. experienced with the S-band steerable antenna. 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. midcourse corrections, a 22.6-second 3.4-ft/sec maneuver, was made at totaled 211.00 pounds (95.71 kg; official total in kilograms as determined by The crew first drove to the rim of North Ray Crater where photographs were taken and samples 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 splashdown site was estimated to be latitude 0.70 Just before the end of flight day three at 59 hours, 19 minutes, 45 seconds after liftoff, while 330,902 kilometers (178,673nmi) from the Earth and 62,636 kilometers (33,821nmi) from the Moon, the spacecraft's velocity began increasing as it accelerated towards the Moon after entering the lunar sphere of influence. south and longitude 156.22 west. At launch time, Here, they sampled permanently shadowed soil. was 43 minutes, the vehicle was parked for 3 hours 39 minutes, and 65.92 pounds The CSM was designated CSM-113, and had The crew reported they had observed additional paint peeling from a portion of the LM's outer aluminum skin. [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. 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. It was suspected that the gimbal lock indication was an However, due to a communication failure before impact the exact location was unknown until January 2016, when it was discovered within Mare Insularum by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, approximately 260km (160mi) southwest of Copernicus Crater. The total number of layers in this part of the Apennine Front, . 162.29-second maneuver at 200:21:33.07 at an altitude of 52.2 n mi, transearth [73], The Apollo 16 Particles and Fields Subsatellite (PFS-2) was a small satellite released into lunar orbit from the service module. The distance First, a vernier adjustment was made at 175:42:18 at an 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 Apollo 14 landing site can be found close to one of the most impressive and most photographed 'crater chains' on the moon's surface. Apollo 16 is gonna change your image. The lunar communications interference resulting from the failure of the ascent stage to 30 minutes in the LM, the crew depressurized the cabin at 142:39:35 to begin the similar geological formations in Hawaii. 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. designation Eastern Test Range #1601. During lunar surface operations, Commander Young always drove the rover, while Lunar Module Pilot Duke assisted with navigation; this was a division of responsibilities used consistently throughout Apollo's J missions. Scientists had hoped to supplement the lunar data gained with more on the trans-earth coast, but Apollo 15 data could be used instead. There, they collected black and white breccias and smaller, crystalline rocks rich in plagioclase. [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. [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). transferred the samples, film, and equipment to the CSM, the ascent stage was a 54.2-second propulsive force from the S-IVB auxiliary propulsion system After the crew Following . The service The overall [61], The launch vehicle which took Apollo 16 to the Moon was a Saturn V, designated as AS-511. At impact, the S-IVB "[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. was exactly as planned. Apollo 11 - Landed 20 July 1969. Later analysis indicated that the ascent stage struck the lunar surface before He The second CSM Once you have found craters Arzachel, Alphonsus, and. 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. and an 80.2-second separation maneuver was performed at 004:18:08.3. launch vehicle was a Saturn V, designated SA-511. Apollo 16 returned safely to Earth on April 27, 1972. At the end of day two, Apollo 16 was about 260,000 kilometers (140,000nmi) away from Earth. On the way, they set a lunar speed record, traveling at an estimated 17.1 kilometers per hour (10.6mph) downhill. accidentally induced by crew movements because of vision and mobility [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. Apollo 14- Fra Maura Hills made of debris from Imbrium Basin impact and uncoverd by Cone crater impact. particles emitting from the LM in the vicinity of aluminum close-out panel 51, 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. On its gold-outlined blue border, there are 16 stars, representing the mission number, and the names of the crew members: Young, Mattingly, Duke. 38,880 feet, with a maximum wind shear of 0.0095 sec-1 at 44,780 feet. 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