
Apollo Mission 16 #6

by Nasa
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Apollo Mission 16 #6
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Nasa
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Family snapshot on the surface of the moon. Astronauts Charles M. Duke and John W. Young landed in the Descartes region of the Moon on 21 April 1972. During their 71 hour visit, they made three excursions on the surface totaling 20 hours 14 minutes, covering 26 kilometers in the LRV. The fifth lunar landing mission out of six was famous for deploying and using an ultraviolet telescope as the first lunar observatory, and for collecting rocks and data on the mysterious lunar highlands. After blasting off from the Moon, they rejoined astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly in the Command and Service Module, returning to Earth on 27 April 1972.
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February 19th, 2013
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