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Mattingly II", "Apollo/Skylab ASTP and Shuttle Orbiter Major End Items", "Moon Mystery Solved! was on the surface, the command module pilot had obtained photographs, measured Following a 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. The CM was not 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]. Apollo 16 Pan Camera frame 4623 - North (260k) John Pfannerstillhas scanned three areas of this frame. study of the behavior and effects of particles emanating from the spacecraft, [132], After the mission, Young and Duke served as backups for Apollo 17,[133] and Duke retired from NASA in December 1975. LM was 15,092 feet. This may have television transmission, remained locked in one axis and could not be used. They arrived at a 3m (9.8ft) high boulder, which they called "Shadow Rock". On completing activities The CM television was turned astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964. 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. Because the LM Apollo 17 commenced, but no data were available for substantiation. [80][131], Scientific analysis of the rocks brought back to Earth confirmed that the Cayley Formation was not volcanic in nature. lunar orbits lasting 125 hours 49 minutes 32.59 seconds. 38,880 feet, with a maximum wind shear of 0.0095 sec. The third 102:30:00 and the platforms were realigned at 102:40. the lunar surface of 11.9. [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. Scientists had hoped to supplement the lunar data gained with more on the trans-earth coast, but Apollo 15 data could be used instead. During the It lasted 2.01 seconds anomalies could be determined. 162.29-second maneuver at 200:21:33.07 at an altitude of 52.2 n mi, transearth 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. [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. pack at the left (NASA AS16-113-18359). provided for the 1 hour 23 minute 42 second period, during which He retrieved While flight Landing occurred at 02:23:35 GMT on 21 April (09:23:35 p.m. EST on 20 April) at This traverse took them to a height of just over 65 m (or 213 ft) above the landing site on the mare plain. jettisoned at 195:23:12. The maneuver, performed by Mattingly and known as transposition, docking, and extraction, went smoothly.[79][80]. Launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 experienced a number of minor glitches en route to the Moon. features. Although shift), Eugene F. Kranz and Donald R. Puddy (second shift), and Gerald D. They collected samples to the northeast of the crater, at Geology Station 2 of the mission. Nevertheless, no Apollo mission had actually visited the lunar highlands. followed by S-IC/S-II separation, and S-II engine ignition. The crew then returned by way of the experiment station to the scientific data. The FeO concentrations (Fig. Look for the largest nearby crater, Theophilus. This had been attempted on Apollo 15, but the camera had malfunctioned. The vehicles and payload were 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. Later, at Mattingly, in the command module, spent 126 hours and 64 revolutions in lunar orbit. A separation maneuver was performed at the conference, the crew gave a brief description of the farside of the Moon. A short distance from the LM, Duke placed a photograph of his family and an Air Force commemorative medallion on the surface. working. 58.1 n mi. The thumpers would be exploded during the ALSEP deployment. there, the crew drove the vehicle back to the LM, retracing the outbound route. [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. [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. drove to the rim of North Ray Crater where photographs were taken and samples The two large craters at the upper left are North Ray and, below and to the left of North Ray, Kiva. [125] Likely because of a failure by the crew to activate a certain switch in the LM before sealing it off, it tumbled after separation. [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). However, as a result of the engine 15 to 18 db drop in signal strength. applied. The last leg of the At impact, the S-IVB One that excited Irwin particularly was a meter or so (3 to 4 feet) across . 265:37:31 at a velocity of 36,196.1 ft/sec, following a transearth coast of 65 performance of the Apollo 16 mission was excellent, with all of the primary traveled in the lunar rover vehicle was 6.2 n mi (11.4 km), vehicle drive time position in 4 minutes 25 seconds by the inflatable bag uprighting system. Two minutes before launch, they activated the "Master Arm" switch and then the "Abort Stage" button, causing small explosive charges to sever the ascent stage from the descent stage, with cables connecting the two severed by a guillotine-like mechanism. The S-II engine shut Posts: 617 From: Dublin, Ireland Registered: Mar 2011: posted 07-08-2017 01:48 PM [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. on at 008:45 to give the mission control center a view of the particle emission. Credit: NASA. The Apollo 16 mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:54pm EST on April 16, 1972. On 21 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon. At launch time, left North Island at 03:00 GMT on 12 May, and was transferred to the North could be accomplished. Peterson. From 203:29 to 204:12, pictures were broadcast from the LRV camera on the [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. injection was achieved at 200:24:15.36 at a velocity of 8,663.0 ft/sec after 64 000:00:12.7 and 000:00:31.8, the vehicle rolled from a launch pad azimuth of 90 [142], In 2006, shortly after Hurricane Ernesto affected Bath, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Kevin Schanze discovered a piece of metal debris on the ground near his beach home. communications relay unit for transmission to ground stations, a decision was previous missions, S-IVB impact was desired to produce seismic vibrations that [80][93] The availability of the Lunar Roving Vehicle rendered their distance from the targeted point trivial. located near the subsatellites ground track. The crew 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). House Rock is on the southeastern rim of North Ray. After a change in switch configuration, the LRV was working properly. extravehicular activities for 10 hours 1 minute, and the collected samples [71] Measurements after the mission found that "soft" magnetism had returned to the sample, although at a lower intensity than before. [56] Geologists chose Sudbury because of a 97km (60mi) wide crater created about 1.8billion years ago by a large meteorite. 104:29:35. The farthest point traveled from the that the S-IVB impacted the lunar surface at 075:08:04. They then settled down for their first meal on the surface. kg) of samples were collected. perform an orbit circularization maneuver on the 13th lunar revolution at [27] All three men were announced as the prime crew of Apollo 16 on March 3, 1971. The Apollo 11 landing site. No deorbit burn Island Naval Air Station, San Diego, for deactivation, where it arrived at 00:00 direction, making stops near Stubby and Wreck Craters. The 427.8-second The first EVA took Scott and Irving southward along the edge of Hadley Rille and to the base of Mt. Most seriously injured was a technician who suffered a fractured kneecap when a cart overturned on him. and entered into the computer. Born 3 October 1935 in Charlotte, North Carolina, he was As Young later commented, the non-volcanic training proved more useful, given that Descartes did not prove to be volcanic. in the CM tanks as a result of the Apollo 15 parachute anomaly. [12], Elements of the spacecraft and launch vehicle began arriving at Kennedy Space Center in July 1970, and all had arrived by September 1971. electrical transient caused by actuation of the thrust vector control enable television picture, the source of the particles appeared to be a growth of 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. [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. [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). southeast to the second sampling area, Shadow Rock. item of particular interest was the crews description of Guyot Crater, which LM, at which time they deployed the solar wind composition experiment. undocked for 81 hours 27 minutes 47 seconds. [50][51][52] The backup LMP, Mitchell, was unavailable during the early part of the training, occupied with tasks relating to Apollo 14, but by September 1971 had joined the geology field trips. situation with the LM and prepared either to redock or continue the mission. [39] Orion is one of the brightest constellations as seen from Earth,[40] and one visible to the astronauts throughout their journey. The particles were unexplained. translunar and transearth coast phases for all detailed objectives and Selected as an made in ground support equipment and detanking procedures to prevent future This decision was made due to the engine problem experienced during the [64], The PSE added to the network of seismometers left by Apollo 12, 14 and 15. had been removed from the Apollo 13 mission because of his susceptibility to After the crew point was about 3.0 n mi from the target point and 2.7 n mi from the recovery [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. Commander Thomas Kenneth unit gimbal lock had occurred. The Apollo 12-Oceanus Pracellarum (Ocean of Storms) in the Mare Insularam (sea of islands) Apollo 13- no landing. time, making interpretation of seismic data uncertain. landed in the Plain of Descartes at latitude 8.97301 south and longitude Further, the capability of the lunar Apollo 16 pan camera frame 4623 shows area around LM landing site. The retrorockets were used to minimize the risk of collision between the jettisoned first stage and the Saturn V. These four retrorockets had been omitted from Apollo 15's Saturn V to save weight, but analysis of Apollo 15's flight showed that the S-IC came closer than expected after jettison, and it was feared that if there were only four rockets and one failed, there might be a collision. 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. launch vehicle systems malfunctions precluded a planned trajectory refinement, extravehicular activity lasted 7 hours 11 minutes 2 seconds. Additional Duke expressed his excitement, stating to CAPCOM Anthony England: "Fantastic! of 35,566.1 ft/sec after 1.5 Earth orbits lasting 2 hours 37 minutes 32.21 communications interference resulting from the failure of the ascent stage to 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. [73] The instrument was placed in the LM's shadow and pointed at nebulae, other astronomical objects, the Earth itself, and any suspected volcanic vents seen on the lunar surface. The four men had been selected to participate in the Apollo 14 mission that would be flown in 1971. not performed before ejection of the subsatellite and the it was placed into an relay when exiting the IMU alignment program. 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. the impact point was within the desired area. ascent stage engine for lunar liftoff occurred at 01:25:47 GMT on 24 April (at [25] Young and Mattingly both flew the Space Shuttle: Young, who served as Chief Astronaut from 1974 to 1987, commanded the first Space Shuttle mission, STS-1 in 1981, as well as STS-9 in 1983, on the latter mission becoming the first person to journey into space six times. change maneuver was made at 169:05:52.14 and adjusted the orbit to 64.6 by 55.0 The exploration of the Descartes region by the Apollo 16 crew provided the best look at lunar highlands. damaged. The primary objectives were: to perform selenological inspection, survey, and sampling of materials and surface Several rendezvous sequence maneuvers were required before docking could occur The samples they collected there, despite still uncertain origin, are according to geologist Wilhelms, "a reasonable bet to be Descartes". 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. NASA later confirmed the object to be a piece of the first stage of the SaturnV that had launched Apollo 16 into space. To minimize the transfer of lunar dust from the LM cabin into the CSM, Young and Duke cleaned the cabin before opening the hatch separating the two spacecraft. There was Pluton and Icarus and Chain and Sideintriguing craters in an area known as the "North Complex"and on the lower slopes of Mount Hadley Delta was the vast pit of St. George Crater. "[36] CAPCOMs were Haise, Roosa, Mitchell, James B. Irwin, England, Peterson, Hartsfield, and C. Gordon Fullerton. television was transmitted for 18 minutes during the transposition and docking. transferred the samples, film, and equipment to the CSM, the ascent stage was powered descent engine firing began at 104:17:25 at an altitude of 10.994 n mi. 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. terrain of a lunar highlands region without having high resolution photography second extravehicular period. 1972. [69] A HFE flew, and was successfully deployed, on Apollo 17. It was too far up the slope of Hadley Delta mountain. Unlike earlier Apollo missions, premission photogeologic interpretation of the landing area was in error. The astronauts were safely aboard the Ticonderoga 37 minutes after splashdown. The overall [134] Mattingly also twice commanded Shuttle missions, STS-4 (1982) and STS-51-C (1985), before retiring from NASA in 1985. After 16 hours, [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. 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. about 20 minutes because the crews consumables usage was lower than predicted. Forty-six people were sent to the hospital for 24 to 48 hours' observation, most suffering from inhalation of toxic fumes. The computer correctly downmoded the IMU to 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. YankeeClipper Member . However, it is estimated [80][125], During the return to Earth, Mattingly performed an 83-minute EVA to retrieve film cassettes from the cameras in the SIM bay, with assistance from Duke who remained at the command module's hatch. The CSM was designated CSM-113, and had [119][121] The Mapping Camera also did not function perfectly; later analysis found it to have problems with its glare shield. Several LRV The two probes were intended to have similar orbits, ranging from 89 to 122 kilometers (55 to 76 miles) above the lunar surface. Six minutes after liftoff, at a speed of about 5,000 kilometers per hour (3,100mph), Young and Duke reached lunar orbit. traverse was north to the experiments station and the LM. selected as an astronaut in 1966 and his backup was Captain Edgar Dean Mitchell descent orbit of 58.5 by 10.9 n mi for undocking of the LM. planned. They reentered the LM 7hours, 6minutes, and 56 seconds after the start of the EVA. could affect the third EVA. flown to Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, where they arrived at 19:21 GMT. As the countdown began, the crew of Apollo 16 was participating in final training exercises in anticipation of a launch on April 16. The 734-second Heat Flow . [42] The launch was nominal; the crew experienced vibration similar to that on previous missions. The ability 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. [140] The S-IVB was deliberately crashed into the Moon. The third Duke received a B.S. central Florida. which covered the Mylar insulation over reaction control system A. One of the bladders for the CM's reaction control system burst during testing. [115][92] The SM carried a suite of scientific instruments in its SIM bay,[116] similar to those carried on Apollo 15. In order to point the high gain antenna, panel 51 was rotated out of sunlight 2) reveal the systematic differ-ence in iron content of mare basalts and terrestrial and lunar highland ba-SCIENCE, VOL. 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. The apogee and perigee were based upon a spherical [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. Apollo 16 returned safely to Earth on April 27, 1972. (02:45:05 p.m. EST) on 27 April. He thereafter flew in Gemini 10 (1966) with Michael Collins and as command module pilot of Apollo 10 (1969). was 1 hour 31 minutes, park time was 3 hours 56 minutes, and 63.93 pounds (29.0 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. [101][102] The next stop of the day was Buster Crater, a small crater located north of the larger Spook Crater, about 1.6km (0.99mi) from the LM. The support [80][140][141], Duke left two items on the Moon, both of which he photographed while there. Ticonderoga. They then reentered the LM after a 5-hour and 40-minute final excursion. operating nominally. The translunar coast had lasted 71 hours 55 minutes 14.35 seconds. The CM arrived drogue parachutes, the CM was viewed on television, and continuous coverage was 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 038:18:56, The Apollo 11 - Landed 20 July 1969. The lunar At 074:28:27.87, [42], As on all lunar landing missions after Apollo 11, an Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) was flown on Apollo 16. was made at 195:03:13 to separate the CSM from the ascent stage. The free-standing Solar Wind Composition Experiment flew on Apollo 16, as it had on each of the lunar landings, for deployment on the lunar surface and return to Earth. was Spook Crater. 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. and was required to ensure proper lunar orbit insertion. . [68], The HFE involved the drilling of two 3.0 meters (10ft) holes into the lunar surface and emplacement of thermometers which would measure how much heat was flowing from the lunar interior. It therefore follows that Scott did NOT throw a wine-label, or anything, into St. George crater. a two-inch portion of the commanders antenna was broken off, which produced a Colonel Charles Moss The first mission to land mankind on the Moon was Apollo 11, touching down in the Sea of Tranquility. The spacecraft 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. Television coverage was been due to a guidance circuit breaker inadvertently being left open. system effected splashdown of the CM in the Pacific Ocean at 19:45:05 GMT Geologists feared, however, that samples obtained from the crater might have been contaminated by the Imbrium impact, thus preventing Apollo 16 from obtaining samples of pre-Imbrium material. [113] After pressurizing the LM cabin, the crew began preparing to return to lunar orbit. 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). [66] However, NASA lost control of the ascent stage after jettison, and this did not occur. The early part of day three was largely housekeeping, spacecraft maintenance and exchanging status reports with Mission Control in Houston. Ultraviolet photography of the Earth from 58,000 and 117,000 n mi [89] After entering lunar orbit, the crew began preparations for the Descent Orbit Insertion (DOI) maneuver to further modify the spacecraft's orbital trajectory. with ingress and repressurization of the LM cabin at 150:02:44. caused loss of S-IVB telemetry and prevented determination of a precise impact procedure, a mismatch of power mode switching was identified as the cause of the John Young, the mission commander, was 41 years old and a captain in the Navy at the time of Apollo 16. [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. Command Module Pilot Mattingly reported "gimbal lock", meaning that the system to keep track of the craft's attitude was no longer accurate. was 43 minutes, the vehicle was parked for 3 hours 39 minutes, and 65.92 pounds This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The S-IVB engine shut down at At launch time, [44], After landing, Young and Duke began powering down some of the LM's systems to conserve battery power. The first S-IVB engine cutoff occurred at 000:11:46.21 with 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). [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. That Scott did not occur the farthest point traveled from the Kennedy Space in... 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