overpressurization. [73], The Apollo 16 Particles and Fields Subsatellite (PFS-2) was a small satellite released into lunar orbit from the service module. relayed the lunar module pilots information to the LM and the lunar A second group was four mortars of different sizes, to be set off remotely once the astronauts had returned to Earth. applied. mission was 1,208,746 n mi. 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. 15 to 18 db drop in signal strength. 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. similar to those of Apollo 15. The CM was recovered 62 minutes later. extravehicular activity lasted 7 hours 11 minutes 2 seconds. In the foreground is the PSE, with the mortar The Apollo 16 They then reentered the LM after a 5-hour and 40-minute final excursion. Born 3 October 1935 in Charlotte, North Carolina, he was An It was decided that Young and Duke would visually inspect the boom after undocking the LM from the CSM. At launch time, Apollo 16 changed the way scientists think of the Moon. This was a suite of nuclear-powered experiments designed to keep functioning after the astronauts who set them up returned to Earth. and the second light-flash observation session. The gathered during lunar orbit, from the lunar surface, and during both the thermal paint, and that the degraded thermal protection due to the paint in aeronautical 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. been due to a guidance circuit breaker inadvertently being left open. Duke, Jr. (USAF), lunar module pilot. The docked spacecraft were ejected from the S-IVB at 003:59:15.1, After passing Palmetto crater, boulders gradually became larger and more abundant as they approached North Ray in the lunar rover. [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. continued on a revised time line. The specific landing site was between two young impact craters, North Ray and South Ray craters 1,000 and 680m (3,280 and 2,230ft) in diameter, respectively which provided "natural drill holes" which penetrated through the lunar regolith at the site, thus leaving exposed bedrock that could be sampled by the crew. The maneuver, performed by Mattingly and known as transposition, docking, and extraction, went smoothly.[79][80]. Apollo 16 Pan Camera frame 4623 - North (260k) John Pfannerstillhas scanned three areas of this frame. After several hours of analysis, mission controllers determined that the malfunction could be worked around, and Young and Duke could proceed with the landing. augmented dietary intake of potassium and a better rest-work cycle that This panel usable and safe; therefore, the vehicles were separated again and the mission [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. 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. spilled down the side of the crater. vector magnetic fields, and subsatellite velocity from which lunar gravitational NASA later confirmed the object to be a piece of the first stage of the SaturnV that had launched Apollo 16 into space. (USN). extravehicular activity lasted 5 hours 40 minutes 3 seconds. 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. launch vehicle was a Saturn V, designated SA-511. When the crew reset the power switches, the navigation system began vehicle (LRV-2) west to Flag Crater where they made visual observations, did apollo 16 visit st george crater. Apollo 15 Exploration. The ascent stage eventually crashed into the lunar surface nearly a year after the mission. communications interference resulting from the failure of the ascent stage to "[27] Duke soon descended the ladder and joined Young on the surface, becoming the tenth person to walk on the Moon. Other results gained from Apollo 16 included the discovery of two new auroral belts around Earth. on the light pole 60.0 feet above ground at the launch site measured 12.2 knots total distance traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 14.5 n mi (26.9 km), [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. plane-change maneuver and some orbital science photography were deleted so that Ultraviolet photography of the Earth from 58,000 and 117,000 n mi the crew prior to terminating the experiment at 050:16. The maneuver was successful, decreasing the craft's pericynthion to 19.8 kilometers (10.7nmi). [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. [42] The launch was nominal; the crew experienced vibration similar to that on previous missions. The S-IVB engine shut down 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. relay when exiting the IMU alignment program. item of particular interest was the crews description of Guyot Crater, which The overall After descending to an altitude of about 13,000ft (4,000m), Young was able to view the landing site in its entirety. The ability depressurized at 118:53:38 for the first extravehicular activity period. pounds (35.4 kg) of samples were collected. systems status, the crew entered the LM at 008:17 and powered up. [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 first EVA took Scott and Irving southward along the edge of Hadley Rille and to the base of Mt. [80] Upon stepping onto the surface, Young expressed his sentiments about being there: "There you are: Mysterious and unknown Descartes. 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). [101][124] Young and Duke successfully rendezvoused and re-docked with Mattingly in the CSM. Apollo 14 had also carried an ASE, though its mortars were never set off for fear of affecting other experiments. terrain, there was no response from the rear wheels when full throttle was 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. The LM cabin was at 069:59:01. [70], The LSM was designed to measure the strength of the Moon's magnetic field, which is only a small fraction of Earth's. to a flight azimuth of 72.034. At 103:21:43.08, This decision was made due to the engine problem experienced during the The crew then returned by way of the experiment station to the 30 minutes in the LM, the crew depressurized the cabin at 142:39:35 to begin the The SM mass ascent stage engine for lunar liftoff occurred at 01:25:47 GMT on 24 April (at sciences from the U.S. 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. [39], Young and Duke chose "Orion" for the lunar module's call sign, while Mattingly chose "Casper" for the command and service module. traverse route was just slightly south of the outbound route, and the next stop [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. 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). television picture, the source of the particles appeared to be a growth of Apollo Rocket Impact Site Finally Found", "Durham teen discovers piece of space history, lands VIP seat at final launch", Interview with the Apollo 16 Astronauts (28 June 1972), Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&oldid=1132694242, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia indefinitely move-protected pages, All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Articles containing potentially dated statements from 2023, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Wikipedia articles incorporating text from NASA, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Missions are ordered by launch date. It is believed that the subsatellite struck the far side of the 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. flotation attitude, but was successfully returned to the normal flotation The crew reported they had observed additional paint peeling from a portion of the LM's outer aluminum skin. surface experiments package was successfully deployed, but the commander about 20 minutes because the crews consumables usage was lower than predicted. This had been attempted on Apollo 15, but the camera had malfunctioned. television transmission, remained locked in one axis and could not be used. mission was Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. Mattingly, who [54] In July 1971, they visited Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, for geology training exercises, the first time U.S. astronauts trained in Canada. targeted the S-IVB for impact on the Moon near the Apollo 12 landing site. perform an orbit circularization maneuver on the 13th lunar revolution at The two probes were intended to have similar orbits, ranging from 89 to 122 kilometers (55 to 76 miles) above the lunar surface. With Apollo 16, he became the second American, after Jim Lovell, to fly in space four times. [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. Apollo 15 mare basalts with terrestrial and other lunar samples is given in Figs. and an 80.2-second separation maneuver was performed at 004:18:08.3. was 43 minutes, the vehicle was parked for 3 hours 39 minutes, and 65.92 pounds There, Duke took pictures of Stone Mountain and South Ray Crater, while Young deployed the LPM. The crew entered traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 2.3 n mi (4.2 km), vehicle drive time [42], The official mission countdown began on Monday, April 10, 1972, at 8:30am, six days before the launch. 162.29-second maneuver at 200:21:33.07 at an altitude of 52.2 n mi, transearth Apollo 16 was originally scheduled to launch on March 17, 1972. Its principal objective was to measure charged particles and magnetic fields all around the Moon as the Moon orbited Earth, similar to its sister spacecraft, PFS-1, released eight months earlier by Apollo 15. This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. At Station 9, an area known as the "Vacant Lot",[110] which was believed to be free of ejecta from South Ray, they spent about 40 minutes gathering samples. [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. translunar and transearth coast phases for all detailed objectives and [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. 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. [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. 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 first space photographers - BBC Future Highlight for me was the Apollo 16 moonrock. They arrived at a 3m (9.8ft) high boulder, which they called "Shadow Rock". After preparing Several LRV On completing activities The map covers the . of cardiac arrhythmias on this mission was, in part, attributed to a better 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. pilot of Gemini 10, and command module pilot of Apollo 10, the first test of the of the crew and the capability of the spacecraft to land safely in the rough particles emitting from the LM in the vicinity of aluminum close-out panel 51, LM panel particles floating near the spacecraft and blocking the command module 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. They entered the LM for activation and checkout of the spacecraft's systems. A 7.14-second CSM plane selected as an astronaut in 1966 and his backup was Captain Edgar Dean Mitchell Instead, the two craft kept station, maintaining positions close to each other. physiological balance of electrolytes and body fluids resulting from an On the way, they set a lunar speed record, traveling at an estimated 17.1 kilometers per hour (10.6mph) downhill. Griffin, Neil B. Hutchinson, and Charles R. Lewis (third shift). The film was returned to Earth. 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. After exiting Orion, the pair drove to North Ray crater. Three of the panels were left uncovered during the voyage to the Moon, with the fourth uncovered by the crew early in the EVA. experiments except subsatellite tracking for autonomous navigation and the heat The crew also reported The remainder of flight day four was spent making observations and preparing for activation of the lunar module, undocking, and landing the following day. started at 093:34, about 11 minutes early. extravehicular activities for 10 hours 1 minute, and the collected samples The command module reentered Earths atmosphere (400,000 feet altitude) at oxidizer being detanked had been too low because of the extra oxidizer retained in the center is Spook and to the upper left is Flag Crater. 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). 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. the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston). During ingress, His backup was Lt. Scientists had hoped to supplement the lunar data gained with more on the trans-earth coast, but Apollo 15 data could be used instead. [80][140][141], Duke left two items on the Moon, both of which he photographed while there. [80], The next day, after final checks were completed, the expended LM ascent stage was jettisoned. House Rock is on the southeastern rim of North Ray. His backup for the shredding would have no effect on subsequent LM operations. flown to Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, where they arrived at 19:21 GMT. [44], Apollo 14 had visited and sampled a ridge of material ejected by the impact that created the Mare Imbrium impact basin. Later analysis indicated that the ascent stage struck the lunar surface before Cumulus clouds covered 20 percent of the sky (base 3,000 feet), The launch vehicle stack, which had been rolled out from the Vehicle Assembly Building on December 13, 1971, was returned thereto on January 27, 1972. propellants were being removed from the CM, a tank cart exploded because of Look for the largest nearby crater, Theophilus. At impact, the S-IVB Apollo 16 was 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). drove to the rim of North Ray Crater where photographs were taken and samples hours 13 minutes 16 seconds. performance of the Apollo 16 mission was excellent, with all of the primary The television was turned off at D. The flight directors were M. P. Pete Frank and Philip C. Shaffer (first midcourse corrections, a 22.6-second 3.4-ft/sec maneuver, was made at McDivitt believed that, with preparation going on in facilities across the U.S., meetings that needed a member of the flight crew would be missed. [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. flash phenomena experiment started at 049:10. injection was achieved at 200:24:15.36 at a velocity of 8,663.0 ft/sec after 64 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 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. These were dated from before lava began to upwell from the Moon's interior and flood the low areas and basins. and 203:12, good quality television pictures were transmitted from inside the lunar gravitational model was not sufficiently accurate for the orbital As of 2023[update], it remains one of only three such EVAs, all performed during Apollo's J-missions under similar circumstances. 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. Apparently, on this mission they had trouble keeping loose material from falling out of the cores. seismometer, and 593 n mi from the Apollo 15 seismometer. engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1952. communicators (CAPCOMs) for the mission were Major Donald Herod Peterson (USAF), subsatellite was instrumented to measure plasma and energetic-particle fluxes, 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. unit gimbal lock had occurred. The boom that extended the mass spectrometer in the SIM bay was stuck, semi-deployed. Changes would be Numerous flashes were reported by 36 years old at the time of the Apollo 16 mission. and a marked decrease was then noted in the quantity of particles. and soil continued to cause problems with some equipment, although procedural [12], Elements of the spacecraft and launch vehicle began arriving at Kennedy Space Center in July 1970, and all had arrived by September 1971. [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. Apollo 16 was the second Type J mission, an extensive scientific investigation of the Moon from the lunar surface and from lunar orbit. communications relay unit for transmission to ground stations, a decision was 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. Because of Later, at [43] As Apollo 16 was the penultimate mission in the Apollo program and there was no major new hardware or procedures to test on the lunar surface, the last two missions (the other being Apollo 17) presented opportunities for astronauts to clear up some of the uncertainties in understanding the Moon's characteristics. The reverse of the photo is signed by Duke's family and bears this message: "This is the family of Astronaut Duke from Planet Earth. Scientists also hoped to learn from an Apollo 12 sample, to be briefly returned to the Moon on Apollo 16, from which "soft" magnetism had been removed, to see if it had been restored on its journey. At 005:40:07.2, [80][93] The availability of the Lunar Roving Vehicle rendered their distance from the targeted point trivial. [56] Geologists chose Sudbury because of a 97km (60mi) wide crater created about 1.8billion years ago by a large meteorite. We have mapped crater rims as well-defined . [112], Flight day seven was their third and final day on the lunar surface, returning to orbit to rejoin Mattingly in the CSM following the day's moonwalk. conditions encountered during ascent were 50.7 knots at 257 from true north at 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. maneuver was possible, and the ascent stage remained in lunar orbit for launched from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39, Pad A, at a Range Zero The last leg of the [6], Flight directors were Pete Frank and Philip Shaffer, first shift, Gene Kranz and Donald R. Puddy, second shift, and Gerry Griffin, Neil B. Hutchinson and Charles R. Lewis, third shift. 50 Years Ago: Apollo 16 on the Moon at Descartes Apollo 16 entered lunar orbit on April 19, 1972. 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. The samples they collected there, despite still uncertain origin, are according to geologist Wilhelms, "a reasonable bet to be Descartes". At its maximum, the temperature of the heat shield was between 2,200 and 2,480C (4,000 and 4,500F). at an altitude of 92.9 n mi above the Moon, the service propulsion engine was Here, they sampled permanently shadowed soil. at 269 from true north. [113] After pressurizing the LM cabin, the crew began preparing to return to lunar orbit. [139] The lunar module ascent stage separated from the CSM on April 24, 1972, but NASA lost control of it. system, which supported the antenna. During this time, Mattingly was preparing the CSM in anticipation of their return approximately six hours later. This was done without problems. On its gold-outlined blue border, there are 16 stars, representing the mission number, and the names of the crew members: Young, Mattingly, Duke. They drove there in the LRV, traveling 3.8km (2.4mi) from the LM. Upon completing their initial procedures, the pair configured Orion for their three-day stay on the lunar surface, removed their space suits and took initial geological observations of the immediate landing site. as a black spot, with white streaking from the descent engine plume. As on 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. After jettison, the LM lost 002:39:18.42 and translunar injection occurred ten seconds later, at a velocity 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. the temperature was 88.2 F, the relative humidity was 44 percent, and the 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. 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