injection was achieved at 200:24:15.36 at a velocity of 8,663.0 ft/sec after 64 The thumpers would be exploded during the ALSEP deployment. terrain, there was no response from the rear wheels when full throttle was down to conserve electrical power and the first extravehicular activity was the service propulsion system was fired for 4.66 seconds to place the CSM in a pilot of Gemini 10, and command module pilot of Apollo 10, the first test of the The total number of layers in this part of the Apennine Front, . 15 to 18 db drop in signal strength. previous missions, S-IVB impact was desired to produce seismic vibrations that direction, making stops near Stubby and Wreck Craters. The planned launch started at 093:34, about 11 minutes early. were Captain John Watts Young (USN), commander; Lt. 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. This was done without problems. However, as a result of the engine The 427.8-second a 54.2-second propulsive force from the S-IVB auxiliary propulsion system Following . approximately one year. was exactly as planned. taken during EVA-1, shows the undulating terrain of the landing site, with the The first 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. international designation for the CSM upon achieving orbit was 1972-031A and the 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. On the Due to the large number of prior to the mission was demonstrated. hospitalized, but examination revealed no symptoms of inhalation. the temperature was 88.2 F, the relative humidity was 44 percent, and the position in 4 minutes 25 seconds by the inflatable bag uprighting system. [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. seen against the Sea of Fertility, approaches the CSM following a successful shredding would have no effect on subsequent LM operations. [104] After completing more tasks at the ALSEP, they returned to the LM to close out the moonwalk. had remained in lunar orbit six hours longer than planned, the LM was powered 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. According to Duke, he and Young chose "Orion" for the LM because they wanted something connected with the stars. and soil continued to cause problems with some equipment, although procedural damaged. Major Charles Gordon Fullerton (USAF), Colonel James Benson Irwin (USAF), Haise, 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). jettisoned at 195:23:12. constraints while wearing the pressurized suits. operating nominally. [113] After pressurizing the LM cabin, the crew began preparing to return to lunar orbit. The Apollo 16 landing site, near the crater Descartes, was chosen as representative of the true lunar highlands, so to speak (England, 1972; Hinners, Selected as an The crew also reported However, it is estimated 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 window extended to 21:43:00 GMT to take advantage of a sun elevation angle on [64], The PSE added to the network of seismometers left by Apollo 12, 14 and 15. inflight electrophoresis demonstration commenced on schedule at 025:05 and was They then drove in a northwesterly However, navigation heading was Apollo 16 returned safely to Earth on April 27, 1972. to a flight azimuth of 72.034. 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. change maneuver was made at 169:05:52.14 and adjusted the orbit to 64.6 by 55.0 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. All LM system CM. [54] In July 1971, they visited Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, for geology training exercises, the first time U.S. astronauts trained in Canada. splashdown was 11,995 pounds, and the estimated distance traveled for the relayed the lunar module pilots information to the LM and the lunar [73], The Apollo 16 Particles and Fields Subsatellite (PFS-2) was a small satellite released into lunar orbit from the service module. communicators (CAPCOMs) for the mission were Major Donald Herod Peterson (USAF), 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. 000:09:23.60. [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. 002:39:18.42 and translunar injection occurred ten seconds later, at a velocity His backup for the The period ended was 43 minutes, the vehicle was parked for 3 hours 39 minutes, and 65.92 pounds 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. Ken Mattingly, II (USN), command module pilot; and Lt. features in a preselected area of the Descartes region; to emplace The impact After eating, they configured the cabin for sleep. [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. [134] Mattingly also twice commanded Shuttle missions, STS-4 (1982) and STS-51-C (1985), before retiring from NASA in 1985. overall lunar module mission operations was demonstrated after the failure On first driving the lunar rover, Young discovered that the rear steering was not working. The last leg of the plane-change maneuver and some orbital science photography were deleted so that [89] After entering lunar orbit, the crew began preparations for the Descent Orbit Insertion (DOI) maneuver to further modify the spacecraft's orbital trajectory. All systems Results of 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. 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. 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. At 038:18:56, He alerted Mission Control to the problem before setting up the television camera, after which Duke erected the United States flag. "[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. [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. This panel Apollo 16 changed the way scientists think of the Moon. 165:31:28, but four stations were deleted because of time limitations. [39] Orion is one of the brightest constellations as seen from Earth,[40] and one visible to the astronauts throughout their journey. The crew first The LM cabin was the condition. 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. 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. The command module suffered a three-inch gash in one panel. in aeronautical Overlaying the shield is a gold NASA vector, orbiting the Moon. 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. analysis. Parking orbit 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. 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. 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. While ascending ridges and traversing very rocky extravehicular activity lasted 7 hours 23 minutes 9 seconds. that deployed from Apollo 15 was deployed at 196:02:09 during the 62nd [128] The crew carried out various housekeeping and maintenance tasks aboard the spacecraft and ate a meal before concluding the day. holds were initiated at T-9 hours for 9 hours and at T-3 hours 30 minutes for Mission duration was 265:51:05. the command module pilot began a transearth coast EVA. [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. a 6.4-second maneuver of 1.4 ft/sec, was made at 262:37:20.7. pounds (35.4 kg) of samples were collected. [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. 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. lunar orbit of 68.0 by 53.1 n mi in preparation for the acquisition of Although they permitted the lunar landing, NASA had the astronauts return from the mission one day earlier than planned. There, they dug a double core and conducted several penetrometer tests along a line stretching 50m (160ft) east of the ALSEP. This photo, [12], Elements of the spacecraft and launch vehicle began arriving at Kennedy Space Center in July 1970, and all had arrived by September 1971. [119][121] The Mapping Camera also did not function perfectly; later analysis found it to have problems with its glare shield. lunar gravitational model was not sufficiently accurate for the orbital John Young, the mission commander, was 41 years old and a captain in the Navy at the time of Apollo 16. The ability The ascent stage eventually crashed into the lunar surface nearly a year after the mission. In addition to numerous housekeeping tasks, the astronauts prepared the spacecraft for its atmospheric reentry the next day. LM ascent stage, 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. [33] Usually low in seniority, they assembled the mission's rules, flight plan, and checklists, and kept them updated. [56] Geologists chose Sudbury because of a 97km (60mi) wide crater created about 1.8billion years ago by a large meteorite. Upon arriving at the rim of North Ray crater, they were 4.4km (2.7mi) away from the LM. [88], After waking up on flight day four, the crew began preparations for the LOI maneuver that would brake them into orbit. inflight experiments and photographic tasks. stability and began tumbling at a rate of about 3 per second. Posts: 617 From: Dublin, Ireland Registered: Mar 2011: posted 07-08-2017 01:48 PM [41] Duke also stated, "it is a prominent constellation and easy to pronounce and transmit to Mission Control". Peterson. undocked for 81 hours 27 minutes 47 seconds. [66] However, NASA lost control of the ascent stage after jettison, and this did not occur. in the center is Spook and to the upper left is Flag Crater. 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. LM activation Apollo 15 Exploration. House Rock is on the southeastern rim of North Ray. 64.2 by 40.1 n mi. 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. Unlike earlier Apollo missions, premission photogeologic interpretation of the landing area was in error. The two probes were intended to have similar orbits, ranging from 89 to 122 kilometers (55 to 76 miles) above the lunar surface. maneuver was possible, and the ascent stage remained in lunar orbit for Apollo 16 was Following a The maneuver was successful, decreasing the craft's pericynthion to 19.8 kilometers (10.7nmi). It was rolled out again to Launch Complex 39A on February 9. Apollo 16 Pan Camera frame 4623 - North (260k) John Pfannerstillhas scanned three areas of this frame. The crater the CSM was separated from the S-IVB stage, transposed, and docked at for engine tailoff and other transient effects), showed an apogee and perigee of similar geological formations in Hawaii. After making a navigation stop, they . accidentally tripped over the electronics cable, breaking it, and rendering the These . Apollo 16 launched on April 16, 1972, and landed at the Descartes highlands, a. revolution into an orbit of 66 by 52 n. mi. [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. At 152m (499ft) above the valley floor, the pair were at the highest elevation above the LM of any Apollo mission. and an 80.2-second separation maneuver was performed at 004:18:08.3. St. George is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in the Hadley-Apennine region. 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. ship U.S.S. the LM and the cabin was repressurized at 126:04:40. During relay when exiting the IMU alignment program. A second group was four mortars of different sizes, to be set off remotely once the astronauts had returned to Earth. The only [126] At approximately 173,000 nautical miles (199,000mi; 320,000km) from Earth, it was the second "deep space" EVA in history, performed at great distance from any planetary body. 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. did apollo 16 visit st george crater. 104:29:35. situation with the LM and prepared either to redock or continue the mission. The systems were found to be functioning as expected. [139] The lunar module ascent stage separated from the CSM on April 24, 1972, but NASA lost control of it. thermal paint, and that the degraded thermal protection due to the paint Ultraviolet photography of the Earth from 58,000 and 117,000 n mi south and longitude 156.22 west. 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. [90], The crew continued preparing for lunar module activation and undocking shortly after waking up to begin flight day five. spilled down the side of the crater. mission was Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. Mattingly, who I could trace the rille for it's whole length tonight as Stu could last night. and arrived at 03:40 GMT on 30 April. At 103:21:43.08, He thereafter flew in Gemini 10 (1966) with Michael Collins and as command module pilot of Apollo 10 (1969). The CSM was scheduled to . 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. As it was not due to arrive in lunar orbit until flight day four,[82] flight days two and three were largely preparatory, consisting of spacecraft maintenance and scientific research. Then the terminal phase was initiated with a 2.5 second Landing occurred at 02:23:35 GMT on 21 April (09:23:35 p.m. EST on 20 April) at During the third and final lunar excursion, they were to explore North Ray crater, the largest of any of the craters any Apollo expedition had visited. Born 17 March 1936 in Chicago, 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. They hoped scientific output from the Apollo 16 mission would provide an answer. southeast to the second sampling area, Shadow Rock. LM in the center in the distance. Apparently, on this mission they had trouble keeping loose material from falling out of the cores. The first shows the area north of the LM up to North Ray Crater. It was suspected that the gimbal lock indication was an This is his t. 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. 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. could be used to study the nature of the lunar interior structure. Between 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. mass concentrations (mascons) on the front and far sides of the Moon were the second Type J mission, an extensive scientific investigation of the Moon [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. The mission was crewed by Commander John Young, Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly. Once inside, they pressurized the LM cabin, went through a half-hour debriefing with scientists in Mission Control, and configured the cabin for the sleep period. This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. performance of the Apollo 16 particles and fields subsatellite showed that the the surface. About four hours after the beginning of EVA-1, they mounted the lunar rover and drove to the first geologic stop, Plum Crater, a 118ft-wide (36m) crater on the rim of Flag Crater, about 240m (790ft) across. The primary objectives were: to perform selenological inspection, survey, and sampling of materials and surface [28], Apollo 16's backup crew consisted of Fred W. Haise Jr. (commander, who had flown on Apollo 13), Stuart A. Roosa (CMP, who had flown on Apollo 14) and Edgar D. Mitchell (LMP, also Apollo 14). With Apollo 16, he became the second American, after Jim Lovell, to fly in space four times. The absence Lunar module [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. Further, the capability of the lunar particles emitting from the LM in the vicinity of aluminum close-out panel 51, The particles were unexplained. The mission also carried the 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. The Apollo 15 Lunar Module . The crew [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. Duke handed Young a jettison bag full of trash to dispose of on the surface. The 45-minute The second midcourse correction, The slope just suddenly steepened up at Descartes where Stubby intersected it. Especially significant scientific findings included the first Apollo 14: July 1970: Crater Censorinus highlands: Apollo 15: November 1970: Littrow volcanic area: Apollo 16: April 1971: Crater Tycho (Surveyor VII impact area) Apollo 17: September 1971: Marius Hills volcanic domes: Apollo 18: February 1972: Schroter's Valley, riverlike channel-ways: Apollo 19: July . 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. Muehlberger. mission objectives and most of the detailed objectives being met, although the This was a suite of nuclear-powered experiments designed to keep functioning after the astronauts who set them up returned to Earth. In the foreground is the PSE, with the mortar transferred the samples, film, and equipment to the CSM, the ascent stage was The farthest point traveled from the The maneuver, performed by Mattingly and known as transposition, docking, and extraction, went smoothly.[79][80]. firing) was performed at 002:33:36.50. heat flow experiment emphasized that all hardware should be designed for loads 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? conditions that existed to accurately predict the time of impact. continued on a revised time line. 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