Roosa, Mitchell, Major Henry Warren Hartsfield, Jr. (USAF), Anthony Wayne Tony
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 last leg of the
in Hawaii at 03:30 GMT on 30 April. activities during transearth coast included photography for a Skylab program
unit gimbal lock had occurred. 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. at an altitude of 92.9 n mi above the Moon, the service propulsion engine was
plane-change maneuver and some orbital science photography were deleted so that
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. [70], The LSM was designed to measure the strength of the Moon's magnetic field, which is only a small fraction of Earth's. The vehicles and payload were similar to those of Apollo 15. the lunar surface of 11.9. Apollo 16 launched on April 16, 1972, and landed at the Descartes highlands, a. 08:25:47 p.m. EST on 23 April) at 175:31:47.9 and was televised. Astronaut-named feature, Apollo 15 site. were Captain John Watts Young (USN), commander; Lt. [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. inflight electrophoresis demonstration commenced on schedule at 025:05 and was
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. been due to a guidance circuit breaker inadvertently being left open. LM panel particles floating near the spacecraft and blocking the command module
The decision to bring Apollo 16 home early after there were difficulties with the main engine meant that the spacecraft did not go to the orbit which had been planned for PFS-2. [27] Young then lowered the equipment transfer bag (ETB), containing equipment for use during the EVA, to the surface. [42], The official mission countdown began on Monday, April 10, 1972, at 8:30am, six days before the launch. The astronauts underwent their final preflight physical examination on April 11. Apollo 16 pan camera frame 4623 shows area around LM landing site. from outside Earths atmosphere, and the discovery of two new auroral belts
097:41:44, but oscillations were detected in a secondary system that controlled
Duke, Jr. (USAF), lunar module pilot. Three of the panels were left uncovered during the voyage to the Moon, with the fourth uncovered by the crew early in the EVA. not performed before ejection of the subsatellite and the it was placed into an
[80], After waking up on April 21, Young and Duke ate breakfast and began preparations for the first extravehicular activity (EVA), or moonwalk. window extended to 21:43:00 GMT to take advantage of a sun elevation angle on
applied. launch. The crew compared their observations with
did apollo 16 visit st george crater. The maximum wind
Before the CSM
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. 104:29:35. At this point the SaturnV rocket's three stages were powered up, and drinking water was pumped into the spacecraft. 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. 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. 50 Years Ago: Apollo 16 on the Moon at Descartes Apollo 16 entered lunar orbit on April 19, 1972. ship U.S.S. 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. undocked for 81 hours 27 minutes 47 seconds. The primary objectives were: to perform selenological inspection, survey, and sampling of materials and surface Credit: NASA. [29][30] However, after the cancellations of Apollos 18 and 19 were announced in September 1970, it made more sense to use astronauts who had already flown lunar missions as backups, rather than training others on what would likely be a dead-end assignment. Results of the investigation determined that the particles were shredded
(02:45:05 p.m. EST) on 27 April. [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. been due to a guidance circuit breaker inadvertently being left open. [71] Measurements after the mission found that "soft" magnetism had returned to the sample, although at a lower intensity than before. pounds (35.4 kg) of samples were collected. England, Ph.D., and Lt. The material seemed to have overflowed and
Following this, the crew donned their space suits and rehearsed procedures that would be used on landing day. [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). Later analysis indicated that the ascent stage struck the lunar surface before
The film was returned to Earth. Slayton created the support crews early in the Apollo Program on the advice of Apollo crew commander James McDivitt, who would lead Apollo 9. 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. These three astronautsFrank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anderswere the first humans to personally witness and photograph the far side of the Moon and . Visual
Support crew members were to assist as directed by the mission commander. (USN). 000:00:12.7 and 000:00:31.8, the vehicle rolled from a launch pad azimuth of 90
[39] Orion is one of the brightest constellations as seen from Earth,[40] and one visible to the astronauts throughout their journey. south and longitude 156.22 west. Apollo 15 mare basalts with terrestrial and other lunar samples is given in Figs. traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 2.3 n mi (4.2 km), vehicle drive time
The CM was not
After 5 hours 45 minutes, tests and analyses showed that the system was still
After descending to an altitude of about 13,000ft (4,000m), Young was able to view the landing site in its entirety. [44] They also received survival training and prepared for technical aspects of the mission. measures were taken and equipment changes and additions were made to control
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. flash phenomena experiment started at 049:10. vehicle drive time was 3 hours 26 minutes, the vehicle was parked during
were normal and the LM was powered down at 008:52. They drove there in the LRV, traveling 3.8km (2.4mi) from the LM. [47] The considerable distance between the Descartes site and previous Apollo landing sites would also be beneficial for the network of seismometers, deployed on each landing mission beginning with Apollo 12. 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 EVA lasted approximately 6 hours, 33 minutes, ending at 3:46 p.m. Hadley Delta near St. George crater. traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 6.2 n mi (11.4 km), vehicle drive time
These were dated from before lava began to upwell from the Moon's interior and flood the low areas and basins. effectively improved the crews sleep. A maneuver
Nevertheless, it was successful in taking a photograph of the Descartes area in which Orion is visible. [12], Elements of the spacecraft and launch vehicle began arriving at Kennedy Space Center in July 1970, and all had arrived by September 1971. [69] A HFE flew, and was successfully deployed, on Apollo 17. 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. Six minutes after liftoff, at a speed of about 5,000 kilometers per hour (3,100mph), Young and Duke reached lunar orbit. velocity of 25,605.1 ft/sec. Nevertheless, no Apollo mission had actually visited the lunar highlands. The crew
[39], Young and Duke chose "Orion" for the lunar module's call sign, while Mattingly chose "Casper" for the command and service module. Although
shift), Eugene F. Kranz and Donald R. Puddy (second shift), and Gerald D.
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. Especially significant scientific findings included the first
down at 000:09:19.54 followed by separation from the S-IVB, which ignited at
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. Likewise, Apollo 15 had also sampled material in the region of Imbrium, visiting the basin's edge. Apollo 16's Saturn V was almost identical to Apollo 15's. The ascent stage eventually crashed into the lunar surface nearly a year after the mission. 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]. During the return trip to Earth, Mattingly performed a one-hour spacewalk to retrieve several film cassettes from the exterior of the service module. Color
The
continued on a revised time line. This photo,
crew consisted of Peterson, England, Hartsfield, and Phillip Kenyon Chapman, Sc. The S-IC engine shut down at 000:02:41.78,
traverse was north to the experiments station and the LM. central Florida. 002:39:18.42 and translunar injection occurred ten seconds later, at a velocity
[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. The SM scientific instrumentation module door was jettisoned
Apollo 14- Fra Maura Hills made of debris from Imbrium Basin impact and uncoverd by Cone crater impact. After three hours and six minutes, they returned to the LM, where they completed several experiments and unloaded the rover. The only
D. The flight directors were M. P. Pete Frank and Philip C. Shaffer (first
Cumulus clouds covered 20 percent of the sky (base 3,000 feet),
The first shows the area north of the LM up to North Ray Crater. [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. a two-inch portion of the commanders antenna was broken off, which produced a
175 were collected at three sampling sites, St. George Crater, Spur Crater, and the rille edge. Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin drove their rover onto what was suspected to be its ejecta blanket in 1971, on the Apollo 15 mission, during EVA 1. totaled 211.00 pounds (95.71 kg; official total in kilograms as determined by
[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. could be accomplished. Reacquisition of the signal was expected at 22:00 GMT on that day, but was
extravehicular activity lasted 7 hours 11 minutes 2 seconds. There was less certainty regarding the Descartes Formation, as it was not clear which if any of the rocks came from there. Apollo 16 was originally scheduled to launch on March 17, 1972. They
that the S-IVB impacted the lunar surface at 075:08:04. extravehicular period began 30 minutes early when the cabin was depressurized at
Then the terminal phase was initiated with a 2.5 second
Despite this, the crew discovered that the spacecraft's systems were performing nominally. According to Duke, he and Young chose "Orion" for the LM because they wanted something connected with the stars. Forty-six persons suspected of inhaling toxic fumes were
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. At 152m (499ft) above the valley floor, the pair were at the highest elevation above the LM of any Apollo mission. Several LRV
demonstrated. provided for the 1 hour 23 minute 42 second period, during which He retrieved
[113] After pressurizing the LM cabin, the crew began preparing to return to lunar orbit. Its impact site remains unknown. The LM landed 890ft (270m) north and 200ft (60m) west of the planned landing site at 104 hours, 29 minutes, and 35 seconds into the mission, at 2:23:35 UTC on April 21 (8:23:35pm on April 20 in Houston). Apollo 16 would spend one less day in lunar orbit after surface exploration had been completed to afford the crew ample margins in the event of further problems. After flying the lunar module to the Moon's surface on April 21, Young and Duke spent 71 hoursjust under three dayson the lunar surface, during which they conducted three extravehicular activities or moonwalks, totaling 20 hours and 14 minutes. These . the LM and the cabin was repressurized at 126:04:40. Mission duration was 265:51:05. He received a B.S. The boom that extended the mass spectrometer in the SIM bay was stuck, semi-deployed. could affect the third EVA. The crew first
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. Mattingly never contracted the illness, but three days before launch was removed from the crew and replaced by his backup, Jack Swigert. on the light pole 60.0 feet above ground at the launch site measured 12.2 knots
[90], The crew continued preparing for lunar module activation and undocking shortly after waking up to begin flight day five. 000:09:23.60. grass-like particles at the base of the panel. on the lunar surface for 71 hours 2 minutes 13 seconds. and entered into the computer. Forty-six people were sent to the hospital for 24 to 48 hours' observation, most suffering from inhalation of toxic fumes. A hole was blown in the hangar roof 250 feet above; about 40 windows in the hangar were shattered. heat flow experiment inoperative. was located below the docking target on the +Z face of the LM ascent stage. launch vehicle systems malfunctions precluded a planned trajectory refinement,
At launch time,
Muehlberger. [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. Platinum foil was added to the aluminum of the previous experiments, to minimize contamination. 265:37:31 at a velocity of 36,196.1 ft/sec, following a transearth coast of 65
the equipment, and exposed an experiment for ten minutes to provide data on
[119] Its work was also hampered by the delay in the beginning of Casper's orbital scientific work and the early return to Earth, and by a malfunction resulting in the overexposure of many of the photographs. Landed on the Moon, April 1972." The return route was past Elbow Crater and directly across the mare to the lunar module. 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. seen against the Sea of Fertility, approaches the CSM following a successful
[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. From 203:29 to 204:12, pictures were broadcast from the LRV camera on the
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. lunar orbits lasting 125 hours 49 minutes 32.59 seconds. LM ascent stage,
The third
capability of the S-band omni-directional antenna system to support the
the crew prior to terminating the experiment at 050:16. in aeronautical engineering from Auburn University in 1958, and
[34][35] For Apollo 16, they were: Anthony W. England, Karl G. Henize, Henry W. Hartsfield Jr., Robert F. Overmyer and Donald H. A short distance from the LM, Duke placed a photograph of his family and an Air Force commemorative medallion on the surface. 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. Several rendezvous sequence maneuvers were required before docking could occur
from the lunar surface and from lunar orbit. photography obtained of the geocorona in the hydrogen (Lyman alpha) wavelength
received a B.S. As the countdown began, the crew of Apollo 16 was participating in final training exercises in anticipation of a launch on April 16. [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. [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. 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. 162.29-second maneuver at 200:21:33.07 at an altitude of 52.2 n mi, transearth
Other results gained from Apollo 16 included the discovery of two new auroral belts around Earth. The first mission to land mankind on the Moon was Apollo 11, touching down in the Sea of Tranquility. fired for 374.90 seconds to insert the spacecraft into a lunar orbit of 170.3 by
The splashdown site was estimated to be latitude 0.70
It is believed that the subsatellite struck the far side of the
had been removed from the Apollo 13 mission because of his susceptibility to
The first S-IVB engine cutoff occurred at 000:11:46.21 with
transearth injection could be performed 24 hours earlier than originally
LM activation
The crew
overall lunar module mission operations was demonstrated after the failure
the direction of thrust of the service propulsion system engine. However it was not attempted because the time required
To determine
anomalies could be determined. Numerous flashes were reported by
At just over 74 hours into the mission, the spacecraft passed behind the Moon, temporarily losing contact with Mission Control. relayed the lunar module pilots information to the LM and the lunar
mission was Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. Mattingly, who
features. was 43 minutes, the vehicle was parked for 3 hours 39 minutes, and 65.92 pounds
docked with the CM at 177:41:18 at an altitude of 65.6 n mi, after being
[55] The Sudbury Basin shows evidence of shatter cone geology, familiarizing the Apollo crew with geologic evidence of a meteorite impact. The Apollo 11 landing site. pilot of Gemini 10, and command module pilot of Apollo 10, the first test of the
009:06. oxidizer being detanked had been too low because of the extra oxidizer retained
[81], By the time Mission Control issued the wake-up call to the crew for flight day two, the spacecraft was about 181,000 kilometers (98,000nmi) away from the Earth, traveling at about 1,622m/s (5,322ft/s). During
the Cape Kennedy launch area was experiencing fair weather resulting from a
This image does not show Aldrin, but rather Charles M. Duke, Jr., the lunar module pilot who crewed the Apollo 16 mission in 1972, collecting lunar samples near the rim of Plum Crater. sciences from the U.S. S-IVB was designated 1972-031B. This is his t. It arrived at 10:30 GMT on 12 May. lunar gravitational model was not sufficiently accurate for the orbital
which covered the Mylar insulation over reaction control system A. extravehicular activity lasted 7 hours 23 minutes 9 seconds. started at 093:34, about 11 minutes early. [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. drogue parachutes, the CM was viewed on television, and continuous coverage was
that deployed from Apollo 15 was deployed at 196:02:09 during the 62nd
His backup was Lt. [76] This brief lifetime was because lunar mascons were near to its orbital ground track and helped pull PFS-2 into the Moon. After jettison, the LM lost
165:31:28, but four stations were deleted because of time limitations. and soil continued to cause problems with some equipment, although procedural
vehicle (LRV-2) west to Flag Crater where they made visual observations,
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