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href="#Launch_and_outward_journey"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.1</span> <span>Launch and outward journey</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Launch_and_outward_journey-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Lunar_surface" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Lunar_surface"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Lunar surface</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Lunar_surface-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-First_moonwalk" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#First_moonwalk"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2.1</span> <span>First moonwalk</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-First_moonwalk-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Second_moonwalk" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Second_moonwalk"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2.2</span> <span>Second moonwalk</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Second_moonwalk-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Third_moonwalk" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Third_moonwalk"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2.3</span> <span>Third moonwalk</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Third_moonwalk-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Solo_activities" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Solo_activities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Solo activities</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Solo_activities-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Return_to_Earth" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Return_to_Earth"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88_16" title="أبولو 16 – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="أبولو 16" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollon_16" title="Apollon 16 – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Apollon 16" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%85%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%AA%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B2%E0%A7%8B_%E0%A7%A7%E0%A7%AC" title="অ্যাপোলো ১৬ – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="অ্যাপোলো ১৬" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD-16" title="Апалон-16 – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Апалон-16" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE_16" title="Аполо 16 – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Аполо 16" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolo_16" title="Apolo 16 – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Apolo 16" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D9%BE%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88_%DB%B1%DB%B6" title="آپولو ۱۶ – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="آپولو ۱۶" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%95%84%ED%8F%B4%EB%A1%9C_16%ED%98%B8" title="아폴로 16호 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="아폴로 16호" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%95_16" title="אפולו 16 – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אפולו 16" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-jv mw-list-item"><a href="https://jv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – Javanese" lang="jv" hreflang="jv" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Jawa" data-language-local-name="Javanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Jawa</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BD_16" title="Аполлон 16 – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Аполлон 16" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%E2%80%9316" title="Apollo–16 – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Apollo–16" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%85%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%8B%E0%B4%B3%E0%B5%8B_16" title="അപ്പോളോ 16 – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="അപ്പോളോ 16" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%A1%E1%80%95%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%9C%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF_%E1%81%81%E1%81%86" title="အပိုလို ၁၆ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="အပိုလို ၁၆" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_16" title="Apollo 16 – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Apollo 16" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/John_W._Young_on_the_Moon.jpg/520px-John_W._Young_on_the_Moon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3928" data-file-height="3928" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="/wiki/John_Young_(astronaut)" title="John Young (astronaut)">John Young</a> saluting the <a href="/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_States" title="Flag of the United States">United States flag</a> while jumping up on the Moon, with the <a href="/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module" title="Apollo Lunar Module">Apollo Lunar Module</a> <i>Orion</i> and <a href="/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle" title="Lunar Roving Vehicle">Lunar Roving Vehicle</a> in the background</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mission type</th><td class="infobox-data">Crewed lunar landing (<a href="/wiki/List_of_Apollo_missions#Alphabetical_mission_types" title="List of Apollo missions">J</a>)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006547_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006547-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Operator</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/International_Designator" title="International Designator">COSPAR ID</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>CSM: 1972-031A<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006473_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006473-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li><li>LM: 1972-031C<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006476_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006476-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Satellite_Catalog_Number" title="Satellite Catalog Number">SATCAT <abbr title="number">no.</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>CSM: 6000<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006573_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006573-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li><li>LM: 6005<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006573_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006573-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mission duration</th><td class="infobox-data">11 days, 1 hour, 51 minutes, 5 seconds<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006482_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006482-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Spacecraft properties</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spacecraft</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_CSM" class="mw-redirect" title="Apollo CSM">Apollo CSM</a>-113<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006473_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006473-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module" title="Apollo Lunar Module">Apollo LM</a>-11<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006472_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006472-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Manufacturer</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>CSM: <a href="/wiki/North_American_Rockwell" class="mw-redirect" title="North American Rockwell">North American Rockwell</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_200620_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_200620-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li><li>LM: <a href="/wiki/Grumman" title="Grumman">Grumman</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_200626_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_200626-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launch mass</th><td class="infobox-data">52,759 kilograms (116,314 lb)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006585_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006585-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Landing mass</th><td class="infobox-data">5,441 kilograms (11,995 lb)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006482_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006482-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Crew</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Crew size</th><td class="infobox-data">3</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Members</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Young_(astronaut)" title="John Young (astronaut)">John W. Young</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Mattingly" title="Ken Mattingly">Thomas K. Mattingly II</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Duke" title="Charles Duke">Charles M. Duke Jr.</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Callsign</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>CSM: <i>Casper</i></li><li>LM: <i>Orion</i></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Spacewalk" class="mw-redirect" title="Spacewalk">EVAs</a></th><td class="infobox-data">1 in <a href="/wiki/Cislunar_space" class="mw-redirect" title="Cislunar space">cislunar space</a> to retrieve film cassettes</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Spacewalk" class="mw-redirect" title="Spacewalk">EVA</a> duration</th><td class="infobox-data">1 h 23 min 42 s</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Start of mission</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launch date</th><td class="infobox-data">April 16, 1972, 17:54:00<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtstart">1972-04-16UTC17:54Z</span>)</span> UTC</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Rocket</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Saturn_V" title="Saturn V">Saturn V</a> SA-511</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launch site</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center" title="Kennedy Space Center">Kennedy</a> <a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center_Launch_Complex_39" title="Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39">LC-39</a><a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center_Launch_Complex_39A" title="Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A">A</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">End of mission</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Recovered by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/USS_Ticonderoga_(CV-14)" title="USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)">USS <i>Ticonderoga</i></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Landing date</th><td class="infobox-data">April 27, 1972, 19:45:05<span style="display:none"> (<span class="dtend">1972-04-27UTC19:45:06Z</span>)</span> UTC<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006482_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006482-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Landing site</th><td class="infobox-data">South Pacific Ocean<br /><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Apollo_16&params=0_43_S_156_13_W_type:event&title=Apollo+16+splashdown"><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">0°43′S</span> <span class="longitude">156°13′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="vcard"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">0.717°S 156.217°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">-0.717; -156.217</span></span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="fn org">Apollo 16 splashdown</span>)</span></span></span></a></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006482_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006482-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ddf;">Lunar orbiter</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spacecraft component</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Command_and_service_module" class="mw-redirect" title="Command and service module">Command and service module</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Orbital insertion</th><td class="infobox-data">April 19, 1972, 20:22:27 UTC<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006499_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006499-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Orbital departure</th><td class="infobox-data">April 25, 1972, 02:15:33 UTC<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006503_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006503-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Orbits</th><td class="infobox-data">64<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006480_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006480-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ddf;">Lunar lander</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spacecraft component</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module" title="Apollo Lunar Module">Lunar Module</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Landing date</th><td class="infobox-data">April 21, 1972, 02:23:35 UTC<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006500_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006500-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Return launch</th><td class="infobox-data">April 24, 1972, 01:25:47 UTC<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006502_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006502-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Landing site</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Descartes_Highlands" title="Descartes Highlands">Descartes Highlands</a><br /><span class="nowrap"><span class="geo-inline"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1156832818"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Apollo_16&params=8.97301_S_15.50019_E_type:landmark_globe:moon"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">8°58′23″S</span> <span class="longitude">15°30′01″E</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">8.97301°S 15.50019°E</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">-8.97301; 15.50019</span></span></span></a></span></span></span><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006478_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006478-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Sample mass</th><td class="infobox-data">95.71 kilograms (211.0 lb)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006479_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006479-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Surface EVAs</th><td class="infobox-data">3</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">EVA duration</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>20 h 14 min 14 s</li><li>First: 7 h 11 min 2 s<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006478_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006478-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li><li>Second: 7 h 23 min 09 s<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006479_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006479-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li><li>Third: 5 h 40 min 3 s<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006479_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006479-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ddf;">Lunar rover</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Distance driven</th><td class="infobox-data">26.7 kilometers (16.6 mi)<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006479_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006479-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ddf;">Docking with LM</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Docking date</th><td class="infobox-data">April 16, 1972, 21:15:53 UTC<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006498_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006498-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Undocking date</th><td class="infobox-data">April 20, 1972, 18:07:31 UTC<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006499_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006499-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #ddf;">Docking with LM Ascent Stage</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Docking date</th><td class="infobox-data">April 24, 1972, 03:35:18 UTC<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006503_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006503-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Undocking date</th><td class="infobox-data">April 24, 1972, 20:54:12 UTC<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006503_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006503-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Payload</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scientific_Instrument_Module" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific Instrument Module">Scientific Instrument Module</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle" title="Lunar Roving Vehicle">Lunar Roving Vehicle</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Mass</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>SIM:</li><li>LRV: 210 kilograms (463 lb)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Apollo-16-LOGO.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Apollo-16-LOGO.png/180px-Apollo-16-LOGO.png" decoding="async" width="180" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Apollo-16-LOGO.png/270px-Apollo-16-LOGO.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/Apollo-16-LOGO.png/360px-Apollo-16-LOGO.png 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="2990" /></a></span> <span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Apollo_16_crew.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Apollo_16_crew.jpg/220px-Apollo_16_crew.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Apollo_16_crew.jpg/330px-Apollo_16_crew.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Apollo_16_crew.jpg/440px-Apollo_16_crew.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2391" data-file-height="1723" /></a></span><br />Left to right: <a href="/wiki/Ken_Mattingly" title="Ken Mattingly">Mattingly</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Young_(astronaut)" title="John Young (astronaut)">Young</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Duke" title="Charles Duke">Duke</a><div class="" style="width:100%; text-align:center; border-top:1px #aaa solid"><a href="/wiki/Apollo_program" title="Apollo program">Apollo program</a></div><div style="width:100%"><div style="float: left; text-align:left;padding-right:0.5em;" class="noprint">← <a href="/wiki/Apollo_15" title="Apollo 15">Apollo 15</a></div><div style="float: right; text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;" class="noprint"><a href="/wiki/Apollo_17" title="Apollo 17">Apollo 17</a> →</div></div><div style="clear:both;" class=""></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Apollo 16</b> (April 16–27, 1972) was the tenth <a href="/wiki/Human_spaceflight" title="Human spaceflight">crewed</a> mission in the United States <a href="/wiki/Apollo_program" title="Apollo program">Apollo space program</a>, administered by <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>, and the fifth and penultimate to <a href="/wiki/Moon_landing" title="Moon landing">land on the Moon</a>. It was the second of Apollo's "<a href="/wiki/List_of_Apollo_missions#Alphabetical_mission_types" title="List of Apollo missions">J missions</a>", with an extended stay on the <a href="/wiki/Geology_of_the_Moon#Lunar_landscape" title="Geology of the Moon">lunar surface</a>, a focus on science, and the use of the <a href="/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle" title="Lunar Roving Vehicle">Lunar Roving Vehicle</a> (LRV). The landing and <a href="/wiki/Exploration_of_the_Moon" title="Exploration of the Moon">exploration</a> were in the <a href="/wiki/Descartes_Highlands" title="Descartes Highlands">Descartes Highlands</a>, a site chosen because some scientists expected it to be an area formed by volcanic action, though this proved not to be the case. </p><p>The mission was crewed by <a href="/wiki/Astronaut_ranks_and_positions" title="Astronaut ranks and positions">Commander</a> <a href="/wiki/John_Young_(astronaut)" title="John Young (astronaut)">John Young</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lunar_Module_Pilot" class="mw-redirect" title="Lunar Module Pilot">Lunar Module Pilot</a> <a href="/wiki/Charles_Duke" title="Charles Duke">Charles Duke</a> and <a href="/wiki/Command_Module_Pilot" class="mw-redirect" title="Command Module Pilot">Command Module Pilot</a> <a href="/wiki/Ken_Mattingly" title="Ken Mattingly">Ken Mattingly</a>. Launched from the <a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center" title="Kennedy Space Center">Kennedy Space Center</a> in <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a> on April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 experienced a number of minor glitches en route to the Moon. These culminated with a problem with the spacecraft'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. Although they permitted the lunar landing, NASA had the astronauts return from the mission one day earlier than planned. </p><p>After flying the <a href="/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module" title="Apollo Lunar Module">Lunar Module</a> to the Moon's surface on April 21, Young and Duke spent 71 hours—just under three days—on the lunar surface, during which they conducted three <a href="/wiki/Extravehicular_activity" title="Extravehicular activity">extravehicular activities</a> or moonwalks, totaling 20 hours and 14 minutes. The pair drove the lunar rover, the second used on the Moon, for 26.7 kilometers (16.6 mi). On the surface, Young and Duke collected 95.8 kilograms (211 lb) of lunar samples for return to Earth, including <a href="/wiki/Big_Muley" title="Big Muley">Big Muley</a>, the largest <a href="/wiki/Moon_rock" title="Moon rock">Moon rock</a> collected during the Apollo missions. During this time Mattingly orbited the Moon in the <a href="/wiki/Command_and_service_module" class="mw-redirect" title="Command and service module">command and service module</a> (CSM), taking photos and operating scientific instruments. Mattingly, in the command module, spent 126 hours and 64 revolutions in <a href="/wiki/Lunar_orbit" title="Lunar orbit">lunar orbit</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006480_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006480-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Young and Duke rejoined Mattingly in lunar orbit, the crew released a <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Particles_and_Fields_Subsatellite_PFS-2">subsatellite</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Apollo_service_module" class="mw-redirect" title="Apollo service module">service module</a> (SM). During the return trip to Earth, Mattingly performed a one-hour spacewalk to retrieve several film cassettes from the exterior of the service module. Apollo 16 returned safely to Earth on April 27, 1972. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Crew_and_key_Mission_Control_personnel">Crew and key Mission Control personnel</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Crew and key Mission Control personnel"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders"> <caption> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th style="width:150px;"><a href="/wiki/Astronaut_ranks_and_positions" title="Astronaut ranks and positions">Position</a><sup id="cite_ref-nasmcrew_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nasmcrew-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width:200px;">Astronaut </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Commander (CDR) </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/John_Young_(astronaut)" title="John Young (astronaut)">John W. Young</a><br />Fourth spaceflight </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Command Module Pilot (CMP) </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Ken_Mattingly" title="Ken Mattingly">Thomas K. Mattingly II</a><br />First spaceflight </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row">Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) </th> <td colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Duke" title="Charles Duke">Charles M. Duke Jr.</a><br />Only spaceflight </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>John Young, the mission commander, was 41 years old and a <a href="/wiki/Captain_(United_States_O-6)" title="Captain (United States O-6)">captain</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">Navy</a> at the time of Apollo 16. Becoming an astronaut in 1962 as part of <a href="/wiki/NASA_Astronaut_Group_2" title="NASA Astronaut Group 2">the second group</a> to be selected by <a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a>, he flew in <a href="/wiki/Gemini_3" title="Gemini 3">Gemini 3</a> with <a href="/wiki/Gus_Grissom" title="Gus Grissom">Gus Grissom</a> in 1965, becoming the first American not of the <a href="/wiki/Mercury_Seven" title="Mercury Seven">Mercury Seven</a> to fly in space. He thereafter flew in <a href="/wiki/Gemini_10" title="Gemini 10">Gemini 10</a> (1966) with <a href="/wiki/Michael_Collins_(astronaut)" title="Michael Collins (astronaut)">Michael Collins</a> and as command module pilot of <a href="/wiki/Apollo_10" title="Apollo 10">Apollo 10</a> (1969). With Apollo 16, he became the second American, after <a href="/wiki/Jim_Lovell" title="Jim Lovell">Jim Lovell</a>, to fly in space four times.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006471_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006471-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit148–149_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit148–149-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly, the command module pilot, was 36 years old and a <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_commander_(United_States)" title="Lieutenant commander (United States)">lieutenant commander</a> in the Navy at the time of Apollo 16. Mattingly had been selected in NASA's <a href="/wiki/NASA_Astronaut_Group_5" title="NASA Astronaut Group 5">fifth group of astronauts</a> in 1966. He was a member of the support crew for <a href="/wiki/Apollo_8" title="Apollo 8">Apollo 8</a> and <a href="/wiki/Apollo_9" title="Apollo 9">Apollo 9</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit150–151_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit150–151-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mattingly then undertook parallel training with <a href="/wiki/Apollo_11" title="Apollo 11">Apollo 11</a>'s backup CMP, <a href="/wiki/William_Anders" title="William Anders">William Anders</a>, 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. Had Anders left NASA before Apollo 11 flew, Mattingly would have taken his place on the backup crew.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESlayton_&_Cassutt_1994237_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESlayton_&_Cassutt_1994237-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Mattingly had originally been assigned to the prime crew of <a href="/wiki/Apollo_13" title="Apollo 13">Apollo 13</a>, but was exposed to <a href="/wiki/Rubella" title="Rubella">rubella</a> through Charles Duke, at that time with Young on Apollo 13's backup crew; Duke had caught it from one of his children. Mattingly never contracted the illness, but three days before launch was removed from the crew and replaced by his backup, <a href="/wiki/Jack_Swigert" title="Jack Swigert">Jack Swigert</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Duke, also a Group 5 astronaut and a space rookie, had served on the support crew of Apollo 10 and was a <a href="/wiki/Flight_controller#CAPCOM" title="Flight controller">capsule communicator</a> (CAPCOM) for Apollo 11.<sup id="cite_ref-duke_bio_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-duke_bio-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A <a href="/wiki/Lieutenant_colonel_(United_States)" title="Lieutenant colonel (United States)">lieutenant colonel</a> in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">Air Force</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit2_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit2-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Duke was 36 years old at the time of Apollo 16, which made him the youngest of the twelve astronauts who walked on the Moon during Apollo as of the time of the mission.<sup id="cite_ref-briar_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-briar-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> All three men were announced as the prime crew of Apollo 16 on March 3, 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006471–472_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006471–472-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Apollo 16's backup crew consisted of <a href="/wiki/Fred_Haise" title="Fred Haise">Fred W. Haise Jr.</a> (commander, who had flown on Apollo 13), <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Roosa" title="Stuart Roosa">Stuart A. Roosa</a> (CMP, who had flown on <a href="/wiki/Apollo_14" title="Apollo 14">Apollo 14</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Mitchell" title="Edgar Mitchell">Edgar D. Mitchell</a> (LMP, also Apollo 14).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006471_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006471-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although not officially announced, Director of Flight Crew Operations <a href="/wiki/Deke_Slayton" title="Deke Slayton">Deke Slayton</a>, the astronauts' supervisor, had originally planned to have a backup crew of Haise as commander, <a href="/wiki/William_R._Pogue" class="mw-redirect" title="William R. Pogue">William R. Pogue</a> (CMP) and <a href="/wiki/Gerald_P._Carr" class="mw-redirect" title="Gerald P. Carr">Gerald P. Carr</a> (LMP), who were targeted for the prime crew assignment on Apollo 19.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESlayton_&_Cassutt_1994262_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESlayton_&_Cassutt_1994262-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, after the <a href="/wiki/Canceled_Apollo_missions" title="Canceled Apollo missions">cancellations of Apollos 18 and 19</a> 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. Subsequently, Roosa and Mitchell were assigned to the backup crew, while Pogue and Carr were reassigned to the <a href="/wiki/Skylab" title="Skylab">Skylab</a> program where they flew on <a href="/wiki/Skylab_4" title="Skylab 4">Skylab 4</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For projects <a href="/wiki/Project_Mercury" title="Project Mercury">Mercury</a> and <a href="/wiki/Project_Gemini" title="Project Gemini">Gemini</a>, 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. Slayton created the support crews early in the Apollo Program on the advice of Apollo crew commander <a href="/wiki/James_McDivitt" title="James McDivitt">James McDivitt</a>, who would lead Apollo 9. 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. Support crew members were to assist as directed by the mission commander.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESlayton_&_Cassutt_1994184_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESlayton_&_Cassutt_1994184-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Usually low in seniority, they assembled the mission's rules, <a href="/wiki/Flight_plan" title="Flight plan">flight plan</a>, and checklists, and kept them updated.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBrooks,_Grimwood,_&_Swenson1979261_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBrooks,_Grimwood,_&_Swenson1979261-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For Apollo 16, they were: <a href="/wiki/Anthony_W._England" title="Anthony W. England">Anthony W. England</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karl_Gordon_Henize" title="Karl Gordon Henize">Karl G. Henize</a>, <a href="/wiki/Henry_Hartsfield" title="Henry Hartsfield">Henry W. Hartsfield Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Overmyer" title="Robert F. Overmyer">Robert F. Overmyer</a> and <a href="/wiki/Donald_H._Peterson" title="Donald H. Peterson">Donald H. Peterson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006472_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006472-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Flight_controller#Flight_director" title="Flight controller">Flight directors</a> were <a href="/wiki/Pete_Frank" title="Pete Frank">Pete Frank</a> and Philip Shaffer, first shift, <a href="/wiki/Gene_Kranz" title="Gene Kranz">Gene Kranz</a> and Donald R. Puddy, second shift, and <a href="/wiki/Gerry_Griffin" class="mw-redirect" title="Gerry Griffin">Gerry Griffin</a>, Neil B. Hutchinson and Charles R. Lewis, third shift.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006472_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006472-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Flight directors during Apollo had a one-sentence job description: "The flight director may take any actions necessary for crew safety and mission success."<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/CAPCOM" class="mw-redirect" title="CAPCOM">CAPCOMs</a> were Haise, Roosa, Mitchell, <a href="/wiki/James_B._Irwin" class="mw-redirect" title="James B. Irwin">James B. Irwin</a>, England, Peterson, Hartsfield, and <a href="/wiki/C._Gordon_Fullerton" title="C. Gordon Fullerton">C. Gordon Fullerton</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006472_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006472-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mission_insignia_and_call_signs">Mission insignia and call signs</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Mission insignia and call signs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Apollo_16_Flown_Silver_Robbins_Medallion_(SN-19).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Apollo_16_Flown_Silver_Robbins_Medallion_%28SN-19%29.jpg/220px-Apollo_16_Flown_Silver_Robbins_Medallion_%28SN-19%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="111" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Apollo_16_Flown_Silver_Robbins_Medallion_%28SN-19%29.jpg/330px-Apollo_16_Flown_Silver_Robbins_Medallion_%28SN-19%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Apollo_16_Flown_Silver_Robbins_Medallion_%28SN-19%29.jpg/440px-Apollo_16_Flown_Silver_Robbins_Medallion_%28SN-19%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3944" data-file-height="1998" /></a><figcaption>Apollo 16 space-flown <a href="/wiki/NASA_space-flown_Robbins_medallions_of_the_Apollo_missions" class="mw-redirect" title="NASA space-flown Robbins medallions of the Apollo missions">silver Robbins medallion</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The insignia of Apollo 16 is dominated by a rendering of an <a href="/wiki/Bald_eagle" title="Bald eagle">American eagle</a> and a red, white and blue shield, representing the people of the United States, over a gray background representing the lunar surface. Overlaying the shield is a gold NASA vector, orbiting the Moon. On its gold-outlined blue border, there are 16 stars, representing the mission number, and the names of the crew members: Young, Mattingly, Duke.<sup id="cite_ref-insignia1_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-insignia1-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The insignia was designed from ideas originally submitted by the crew of the mission,<sup id="cite_ref-insignia2_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-insignia2-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> by Barbara Matelski of the graphics shop at the <a href="/wiki/Johnson_Space_Center" title="Johnson Space Center">Manned Spacecraft Center</a> in Houston.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELattimer_198589_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELattimer_198589-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Young and Duke chose "Orion" for the Lunar Module's call sign, while Mattingly chose "Casper" for the command and service module. According to Duke, he and Young chose "Orion" for the LM because they wanted something connected with the stars.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELattimer_198589_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELattimer_198589-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Orion_(constellation)" title="Orion (constellation)">Orion</a> is one of the brightest constellations as seen from Earth,<sup id="cite_ref-noble_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-noble-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and one visible to the astronauts throughout their journey.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Duke also stated, "it is a prominent constellation and easy to pronounce and transmit to Mission Control".<sup id="cite_ref-launch_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-launch-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mattingly said he chose "Casper", evoking <a href="/wiki/Casper_the_Friendly_Ghost" title="Casper the Friendly Ghost">Casper the Friendly Ghost</a>, because "there are enough serious things in this flight, so I picked a non-serious name."<sup id="cite_ref-noble_40-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-noble-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Planning_and_training">Planning and training</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Planning and training"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Landing_site_selection">Landing site selection</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Landing site selection"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Apollo 16 was the second of Apollo's <a href="/wiki/List_of_Apollo_missions#Alphabetical_mission_types" title="List of Apollo missions">J missions</a>, featuring the use of the <a href="/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle" title="Lunar Roving Vehicle">Lunar Roving Vehicle</a>, increased scientific capability, and three-day lunar surface stays.<sup id="cite_ref-astronautix_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-astronautix-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <a href="/wiki/Apollo_17" title="Apollo 17">Apollo 17</a>) presented opportunities for astronauts to clear up some of the uncertainties in understanding the Moon's characteristics. Scientists sought information on the Moon's early history, which might be obtained from its ancient surface features, the <a href="/wiki/Geology_of_the_Moon#Highlands" title="Geology of the Moon">lunar highlands</a>. Previous Apollo expeditions, including Apollo 14 and <a href="/wiki/Apollo_15" title="Apollo 15">Apollo 15</a>, had obtained samples of pre-<a href="/wiki/Lunar_mare" title="Lunar mare">mare</a> lunar material, likely thrown from the highlands by <a href="/wiki/Meteorite" title="Meteorite">meteorite</a> impacts. These were dated from before <a href="/wiki/Lava" title="Lava">lava</a> began to upwell from the <a href="/wiki/Internal_structure_of_the_Moon" title="Internal structure of the Moon">Moon's interior</a> and flood the low areas and basins. Nevertheless, no Apollo mission had actually visited the lunar highlands.<sup id="cite_ref-overview_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overview-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Apollo 14 had visited and sampled a ridge of material ejected by the impact that created the <a href="/wiki/Mare_Imbrium" title="Mare Imbrium">Mare Imbrium impact basin</a>. Likewise, Apollo 15 had also sampled material in the region of Imbrium, visiting the basin's edge. Because the Apollo 14 and Apollo 15 landing sites were closely associated with the Imbrium basin, there was still the chance that different geologic processes were prevalent in areas of the lunar highlands far from Mare Imbrium.<sup id="cite_ref-overview_44-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overview-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Scientist Dan Milton, studying photographs of the highlands from <a href="/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter" class="mw-redirect" title="Lunar Orbiter">Lunar Orbiter</a> photographs, saw an area in the Descartes region of the Moon with unusually high albedo that he theorized might be due to <a href="/wiki/Volcanic_rock" title="Volcanic rock">volcanic rock</a>; his theory quickly gained wide support.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilhelms_1993284_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilhelms_1993284-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several members of the scientific community noted that the central lunar highlands resembled regions on Earth that were created by volcanism processes and hypothesized the same might be true on the Moon. They hoped scientific output from the Apollo 16 mission would provide an answer.<sup id="cite_ref-overview_44-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overview-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some scientists advocated for a landing near the large crater, <a href="/wiki/Tycho_(lunar_crater)" title="Tycho (lunar crater)">Tycho</a>, but its distance from the lunar equator and the fact that the Lunar Module would have to approach over very rough terrain ruled it out.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChaikin_1995454–455_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChaikin_1995454–455-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Apollo_16_landing_site_AS16-M-0440.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Apollo_16_landing_site_AS16-M-0440.jpg/300px-Apollo_16_landing_site_AS16-M-0440.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="221" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Apollo_16_landing_site_AS16-M-0440.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="405" data-file-height="299" /></a><figcaption>Location of the Apollo 16 landing site</figcaption></figure> <p>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 <a href="/wiki/Noel_Hinners" title="Noel Hinners">Noel Hinners</a> of <a href="/wiki/Bellcomm" class="mw-redirect" title="Bellcomm">Bellcomm</a>. There was consensus the final landing sites should be in the lunar highlands, and among the sites considered for Apollo 16 were the <a href="/wiki/Descartes_Highlands" title="Descartes Highlands">Descartes Highlands</a> region west of <a href="/wiki/Mare_Nectaris" title="Mare Nectaris">Mare Nectaris</a> and the crater <a href="/wiki/Alphonsus_(crater)" title="Alphonsus (crater)">Alphonsus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilhelms_1993286_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilhelms_1993286-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The considerable distance between the Descartes site and previous Apollo landing sites would also be beneficial for the network of <a href="/wiki/Seismometer" title="Seismometer">seismometers</a>, deployed on each landing mission beginning with Apollo 12.<sup id="cite_ref-lpi_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lpi-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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. 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. There also remained the distinct possibility that this objective would have already been satisfied by the Apollo 14 and Apollo 15 missions, as the Apollo 14 samples had not yet been completely analyzed and samples from Apollo 15 had not yet been obtained.<sup id="cite_ref-lpi_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lpi-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On June 3, 1971, the site selection committee decided to target the Apollo 16 mission for the Descartes site.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilhelms_1993288_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilhelms_1993288-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the decision, the Alphonsus site was considered the most likely candidate for Apollo 17, but was eventually rejected. 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. The specific landing site was between two young impact craters, <a href="/wiki/North_Ray_(crater)" title="North Ray (crater)">North Ray</a> and <a href="/wiki/South_Ray_(crater)" title="South Ray (crater)">South Ray</a> craters – 1,000 and 680 m (3,280 and 2,230 ft) in diameter, respectively – which provided "natural drill holes" which penetrated through the lunar <a href="/wiki/Regolith" title="Regolith">regolith</a> at the site, thus leaving exposed <a href="/wiki/Bedrock" title="Bedrock">bedrock</a> that could be sampled by the crew.<sup id="cite_ref-lpi_48-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lpi-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the selection, mission planners made the Descartes and Cayley formations, two geologic units of the lunar highlands, the primary sampling interest of the mission. 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.<sup id="cite_ref-lpi_48-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lpi-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Training">Training</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Training"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Young_and_Duke_train_for_Apollo_16.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Young_and_Duke_train_for_Apollo_16.jpg/220px-Young_and_Duke_train_for_Apollo_16.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="144" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Young_and_Duke_train_for_Apollo_16.jpg/330px-Young_and_Duke_train_for_Apollo_16.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/Young_and_Duke_train_for_Apollo_16.jpg/440px-Young_and_Duke_train_for_Apollo_16.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="522" /></a><figcaption>John Young and Charles Duke training at the <a href="/wiki/Rio_Grande_Gorge" title="Rio Grande Gorge">Rio Grande Gorge</a> in <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In addition to the usual Apollo spacecraft training, Young and Duke, along with backup commander Fred Haise, underwent an extensive <a href="/wiki/Geology" title="Geology">geological</a> 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. During these trips, they visited and provided scientific descriptions of geologic features they were likely to encounter.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhinney_2015125–126_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhinney_2015125–126-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-training2_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-training2-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-geotrips_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-geotrips-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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. 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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhinney_2015125_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhinney_2015125-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since Descartes was believed to be volcanic, a good deal of this training was geared towards volcanic rocks and features, but field trips were made to sites featuring other sorts of rock. As Young later commented, the non-volcanic training proved more useful, given that Descartes did not prove to be volcanic.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhinney_201597_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhinney_201597-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 1971, they visited <a href="/wiki/Greater_Sudbury" title="Greater Sudbury">Sudbury</a>, Ontario, Canada, for geology training exercises, the first time U.S. astronauts trained in Canada.<sup id="cite_ref-sudburytraining_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sudburytraining-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Apollo 14 landing crew had visited a site in <a href="/wiki/West_Germany" title="West Germany">West Germany</a>; geologist <a href="/wiki/Don_Wilhelms" title="Don Wilhelms">Don Wilhelms</a> related that unspecified incidents there had caused Slayton to rule out further European training trips.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilhelms_1993290_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilhelms_1993290-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Geologists chose Sudbury because of a 97 km (60 mi) wide crater created about 1.8 billion years ago by a large meteorite.<sup id="cite_ref-sudburytraining_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sudburytraining-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Sudbury_Basin" title="Sudbury Basin">Sudbury Basin</a> shows evidence of <a href="/wiki/Shatter_cone" title="Shatter cone">shatter cone</a> geology, familiarizing the Apollo crew with geologic evidence of a meteorite impact. During the training exercises the astronauts did not wear <a href="/wiki/Apollo/Skylab_A7L" class="mw-redirect" title="Apollo/Skylab A7L">space suits</a>, but carried radio equipment to converse with each other and England, practicing procedures they would use on the lunar surface.<sup id="cite_ref-sudburytraining_55-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sudburytraining-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the end of the training, the field trips had become major exercises, involving up to eight astronauts and dozens of support personnel, attracting coverage from the media. For the exercise at the <a href="/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site" title="Nevada Test Site">Nevada Test Site</a>, where the massive craters left by nuclear explosions simulated the large craters to be found on the Moon, all participants had to have security clearance and a listed next-of-kin, and an overflight by CMP Mattingly required special permission.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhinney_2015125_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhinney_2015125-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Moon_Buggy_Ap16-KSC-71PC-777.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Moon_Buggy_Ap16-KSC-71PC-777.jpg/220px-Moon_Buggy_Ap16-KSC-71PC-777.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="176" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Moon_Buggy_Ap16-KSC-71PC-777.jpg/330px-Moon_Buggy_Ap16-KSC-71PC-777.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0d/Moon_Buggy_Ap16-KSC-71PC-777.jpg/440px-Moon_Buggy_Ap16-KSC-71PC-777.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2814" data-file-height="2256" /></a><figcaption>Young (right) and Duke training to drive the <a href="/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle" title="Lunar Roving Vehicle">Lunar Roving Vehicle</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In addition to the field geology training, Young and Duke also trained to use their EVA space suits, adapt to the reduced <a href="/wiki/Gravitation_of_the_Moon" title="Gravitation of the Moon">lunar gravity</a>, collect samples, and drive the Lunar Roving Vehicle.<sup id="cite_ref-training3_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-training3-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The fact that they had been backups for Apollo 13, planned to be a landing mission, meant that they could spend about 40 percent of their time training for their surface operations.<sup id="cite_ref-overview_44-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overview-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They also received survival training and prepared for technical aspects of the mission.<sup id="cite_ref-training3_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-training3-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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. 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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhinney_2015127_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhinney_2015127-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Much of the training—according to Young, 350 hours—was conducted with the crew wearing space suits, something that Young deemed vital, allowing the astronauts to know the limitations of the equipment in doing their assigned tasks.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhinney_2015128–129_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhinney_2015128–129-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mattingly also received training in recognizing geological features from orbit by flying over the field areas in an airplane, and trained to operate the Scientific Instrument Module from lunar orbit.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPhinney_201516_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPhinney_201516-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Equipment">Equipment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Equipment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Apollo16-SaturnV-to-Launchpad39A.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Apollo16-SaturnV-to-Launchpad39A.jpg/220px-Apollo16-SaturnV-to-Launchpad39A.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Apollo16-SaturnV-to-Launchpad39A.jpg/330px-Apollo16-SaturnV-to-Launchpad39A.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Apollo16-SaturnV-to-Launchpad39A.jpg/440px-Apollo16-SaturnV-to-Launchpad39A.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1824" data-file-height="2280" /></a><figcaption>Apollo 16's launch vehicle by the <a href="/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building" title="Vehicle Assembly Building">VAB</a>, January 27, 1972</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Launch_vehicle">Launch vehicle</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Launch vehicle"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The launch vehicle which took Apollo 16 to the Moon was a <a href="/wiki/Saturn_V" title="Saturn V">Saturn V</a>, designated as AS-511. This was the eleventh Saturn V to be flown and the ninth used on crewed missions. Apollo 16's Saturn V was almost identical to Apollo 15's. One change that was made was the restoration of four <a href="/wiki/Retrorocket" title="Retrorocket">retrorockets</a> to the <a href="/wiki/S-IC" title="S-IC">S-IC</a> first stage, meaning there would be a total of eight, as on Apollo 14 and earlier. 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.<sup id="cite_ref-launch_42-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-launch-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="ALSEP_and_other_surface_equipment">ALSEP and other surface equipment</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: ALSEP and other surface equipment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Surface_Experiments_Package" title="Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package">Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package</a></div> <p>As on all lunar landing missions after Apollo 11, an <a href="/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Surface_Experiments_Package" title="Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package">Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package</a> (ALSEP) was flown on Apollo 16. This was a suite of nuclear-powered experiments designed to keep functioning after the astronauts who set them up returned to Earth.<sup id="cite_ref-astro_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-astro-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Apollo 16's ALSEP consisted of a Passive Seismic Experiment (PSE, a seismometer), an <a href="/wiki/Active_Seismic_Experiment" title="Active Seismic Experiment">Active Seismic Experiment</a> (ASE), a Lunar <a href="/wiki/Heat_Flow_Experiment" title="Heat Flow Experiment">Heat Flow Experiment</a> (HFE), and a <a href="/wiki/Lunar_Surface_Magnetometer" title="Lunar Surface Magnetometer">Lunar Surface Magnetometer</a> (LSM).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit48_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit48-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ALSEP was powered by a <a href="/wiki/SNAP-27" class="mw-redirect" title="SNAP-27">SNAP-27</a> <a href="/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_generator" title="Radioisotope thermoelectric generator">radioisotope thermoelectric generator</a>, developed by the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Atomic_Energy_Commission" title="United States Atomic Energy Commission">Atomic Energy Commission</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit66_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit66-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ap16_pse.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Ap16_pse.jpg/260px-Ap16_pse.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="278" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Ap16_pse.jpg/390px-Ap16_pse.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Ap16_pse.jpg/520px-Ap16_pse.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2875" data-file-height="3072" /></a><figcaption>Apollo 16's <a href="/wiki/Passive_Seismic_Experiment" class="mw-redirect" title="Passive Seismic Experiment">Passive Seismic Experiment</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The PSE added to the network of seismometers left by Apollo 12, 14 and 15.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreliminary_Science_Report9–1_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPreliminary_Science_Report9–1-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> NASA intended to calibrate the Apollo 16 PSE by crashing the LM's ascent stage near it after the astronauts were done with it, an object of known mass and velocity impacting at a known location.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit48,_52_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit48,_52-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, NASA lost control of the ascent stage after jettison, and this did not occur.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006481_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006481-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ASE, designed to return data about the Moon's geologic structure, consisted of two groups of explosives: one, a line of "thumpers" were to be deployed attached to three <a href="/wiki/Geophone" title="Geophone">geophones</a>. The thumpers would be exploded during the ALSEP deployment. A second group was four <a href="/wiki/Mortar_(weapon)" title="Mortar (weapon)">mortars</a> of different sizes, to be set off remotely once the astronauts had returned to Earth. Apollo 14 had also carried an ASE, though its mortars were never set off for fear of affecting other experiments.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The HFE involved the drilling of two 3.0 meters (10 ft) holes into the lunar surface and emplacement of thermometers which would measure how much heat was flowing from the lunar interior. 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. The Apollo 16 attempt would fail after Duke had successfully emplaced the first probe; Young, unable to see his feet in the bulky spacesuit, pulled out and severed the cable after it wrapped around his leg. NASA managers vetoed a repair attempt due to the amount of time it would take.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChaikin_1995467–469,_478_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChaikin_1995467–469,_478-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A HFE flew, and was successfully deployed, on Apollo 17.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChaikin_1995513_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChaikin_1995513-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:ALSEP_AS16-113-18374.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/ALSEP_AS16-113-18374.jpg/260px-ALSEP_AS16-113-18374.jpg" decoding="async" width="260" height="263" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/ALSEP_AS16-113-18374.jpg/390px-ALSEP_AS16-113-18374.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/ALSEP_AS16-113-18374.jpg/520px-ALSEP_AS16-113-18374.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2340" data-file-height="2369" /></a><figcaption>The Lunar Surface Magnetometer</figcaption></figure> <p>The LSM was designed to measure the strength of the Moon's <a href="/wiki/Magnetic_field_of_the_Moon" title="Magnetic field of the Moon">magnetic field</a>, which is only a small fraction of Earth's. Additional data would be returned by the use of the Lunar Portable Magnetometer (LPM), to be carried on the lunar rover and activated at several geology stops. 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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit50,_55–59_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit50,_55–59-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Measurements after the mission found that "soft" magnetism had returned to the sample, although at a lower intensity than before.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPreliminary_Science_Report7–56_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPreliminary_Science_Report7–56-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Far_Ultraviolet_Camera/Spectrograph" title="Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph">Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph</a> (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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit71–74_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit71–74-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The instrument was placed in the LM's shadow and pointed at <a href="/wiki/Nebula" title="Nebula">nebulae</a>, other astronomical objects, the Earth itself, and any suspected volcanic vents seen on the lunar surface. The film was returned to Earth. When asked to summarize the results for a general audience, Dr. <a href="/wiki/George_Carruthers" class="mw-redirect" title="George Carruthers">George Carruthers</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Naval_Research_Laboratory" class="mw-redirect" title="Naval Research Laboratory">Naval Research Laboratory</a> 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 <a href="/wiki/Ultraviolet" title="Ultraviolet">ultraviolet</a> (UV) light, so that you could see the full extent of the hydrogen atmosphere, the polar <a href="/wiki/Aurora" title="Aurora">auroris</a> and what we call the tropical airglow belt."<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Four panels mounted on the LM's descent stage comprised the Cosmic Ray Detector, designed to record <a href="/wiki/Cosmic_ray" title="Cosmic ray">cosmic ray</a> and <a href="/wiki/Solar_wind" title="Solar wind">solar wind</a> particles. Three of the panels were left uncovered during the voyage to the Moon, with the fourth uncovered by the crew early in the EVA. The panels would be bagged for return to Earth. The free-standing <a href="/wiki/Solar_Wind_Composition_Experiment" title="Solar Wind Composition Experiment">Solar Wind Composition Experiment</a> flew on Apollo 16, as it had on each of the lunar landings, for deployment on the lunar surface and return to Earth. Platinum foil was added to the aluminum of the previous experiments, to minimize contamination.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit71–74_73-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit71–74-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Particles_and_Fields_Subsatellite_PFS-2">Particles and Fields Subsatellite PFS-2</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Particles and Fields Subsatellite PFS-2"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Apollo_15_Subsatellite.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Apollo_15_Subsatellite.jpg/220px-Apollo_15_Subsatellite.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="170" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Apollo_15_Subsatellite.jpg/330px-Apollo_15_Subsatellite.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Apollo_15_Subsatellite.jpg/440px-Apollo_15_Subsatellite.jpg 2x" data-file-width="8043" data-file-height="6220" /></a><figcaption>Artist's conception of subsatellite deployment</figcaption></figure> <p>The Apollo 16 Particles and Fields Subsatellite (PFS-2) was a small satellite released into lunar orbit from the service module. 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, <a href="/wiki/PFS-1" class="mw-redirect" title="PFS-1">PFS-1</a>, released eight months earlier by Apollo 15. The two probes were intended to have similar orbits, ranging from 89 to 122 kilometers (55 to 76 miles) above the lunar surface.<sup id="cite_ref-nasa20061106_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nasa20061106-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Like the Apollo 15 subsatellite, PFS-2 was expected to have a lifetime of at least a year before its <a href="/wiki/Orbital_decay" title="Orbital decay">orbit decayed</a> and it crashed onto the lunar surface. 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. 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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMission_Report5-4–5-5_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMission_Report5-4–5-5-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This brief lifetime was because lunar <a href="/wiki/Mascon" class="mw-redirect" title="Mascon">mascons</a> were near to its orbital ground track and helped pull PFS-2 into the Moon.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006480_12-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006480-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mission_events">Mission events</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Mission events"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Elements of the spacecraft and launch vehicle began arriving at <a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center" title="Kennedy Space Center">Kennedy Space Center</a> in July 1970, and all had arrived by September 1971. Apollo 16 was originally scheduled to launch on March 17, 1972. One of the bladders for the CM's <a href="/wiki/Reaction_control_system" title="Reaction control system">reaction control system</a> burst during testing. 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 <a href="/wiki/Launch_window" title="Launch window">launch window</a>. Thus, Apollo 16 was postponed to April 16. The launch vehicle stack, which had been rolled out from the <a href="/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building" title="Vehicle Assembly Building">Vehicle Assembly Building</a> on December 13, 1971, was returned thereto on January 27, 1972. It was rolled out again to <a href="/wiki/Launch_Complex_39A" class="mw-redirect" title="Launch Complex 39A">Launch Complex 39A</a> on February 9.<sup id="cite_ref-launch_42-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-launch-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The official mission countdown began on Monday, April 10, 1972, at 8:30 am, six days before the launch. At this point the Saturn<span class="nowrap"> </span>V rocket's three stages were powered up, and drinking water was pumped into the spacecraft. As the countdown began, the crew of Apollo 16 was participating in final training exercises in anticipation of a launch on April 16. The astronauts underwent their final preflight physical examination on April 11.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The only holds in the countdown were the ones pre-planned in the schedule, and the weather was fair as the time for launch approached.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006473_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006473-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Launch_and_outward_journey">Launch and outward journey</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Launch and outward journey"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Apollo_16_lift-off.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Apollo_16_lift-off.jpg/290px-Apollo_16_lift-off.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Apollo_16_lift-off.jpg/435px-Apollo_16_lift-off.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/Apollo_16_lift-off.jpg/580px-Apollo_16_lift-off.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1764" data-file-height="1400" /></a><figcaption>Launch of Apollo 16</figcaption></figure> <p>The Apollo 16 mission launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:54 pm EST on April 16, 1972.<sup id="cite_ref-launch_42-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-launch-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The launch was nominal; the crew experienced vibration similar to that on previous missions. The first and second stages of the Saturn<span class="nowrap"> </span>V (the S-IC and <a href="/wiki/S-II" title="S-II">S-II</a>) performed nominally; the spacecraft entered <a href="/wiki/Low_Earth_orbit" title="Low Earth orbit">orbit</a> around Earth just under 12 minutes after lift-off. </p><p>After reaching orbit, the crew spent time adapting to the <a href="/wiki/Weightlessness" title="Weightlessness">zero-gravity</a> environment and preparing the spacecraft for <a href="/wiki/Trans-lunar_injection" title="Trans-lunar injection">trans-lunar injection</a> (TLI), the burn of the third-stage rocket that would propel them to the Moon. In Earth orbit, the crew faced minor technical issues, including a potential problem with the environmental control system and the <a href="/wiki/S-IVB" title="S-IVB">S-IVB</a> third stage's attitude control system, but eventually resolved or compensated for them as they prepared to depart towards the Moon. </p><p>After two orbits, the rocket's third stage reignited for just over five minutes, propelling the craft towards the Moon at about 35,000 km/h (22,000 mph).<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Six minutes after the burn of the S-IVB, the command and service modules (CSM), containing the crew, separated from the rocket and traveled 49 ft (15 m) away from it before turning around and retrieving the lunar module from inside the expended rocket stage. The maneuver, performed by Mattingly and known as <a href="/wiki/Transposition,_docking,_and_extraction" title="Transposition, docking, and extraction">transposition, docking, and extraction</a>, went smoothly.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-fullsummary_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fullsummary-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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. Young and Duke entered the Lunar Module through the docking tunnel connecting it with the command module to inspect its systems, at which time they did not spot any major issues. </p><p>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. After further preparing the craft for the voyage, the crew began the first sleep period of the mission just under 15 hours after launch.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:AS16-118-18885.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/AS16-118-18885.jpg/290px-AS16-118-18885.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/AS16-118-18885.jpg/435px-AS16-118-18885.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/AS16-118-18885.jpg/580px-AS16-118-18885.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>Earth from Apollo 16 during the trans-lunar coast, showing the US at center</figcaption></figure> <p>By the time <a href="/wiki/Christopher_C._Kraft_Jr._Mission_Control_Center" title="Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center">Mission Control</a> issued the wake-up call to the crew for flight day two, the spacecraft was about 181,000 kilometers (98,000 nmi) away from the Earth, traveling at about 1.622 km/s (5,322 ft/s). As it was not due to arrive in lunar orbit until flight day four,<sup id="cite_ref-moonarrival_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-moonarrival-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> flight days two and three were largely preparatory, consisting of spacecraft maintenance and scientific research. On day two, the crew performed an <a href="/wiki/Electrophoresis" title="Electrophoresis">electrophoresis</a> experiment, also performed on Apollo 14,<sup id="cite_ref-two_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-two-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in which they attempted to demonstrate that electrophoretic separation in their near-weightless environment could be used to produce substances of greater purity than would be possible on Earth. Using two different sizes of <a href="/wiki/Polystyrene" title="Polystyrene">polystyrene</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit103_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit103-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The remainder of day two included a two-second mid-course correction burn performed by the CSM's <a href="/wiki/Service_propulsion_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Service propulsion system">service propulsion system</a> (SPS) engine to tweak the spacecraft's trajectory. Later in the day, the astronauts entered the Lunar Module for the second time to further inspect the landing craft's systems. The crew reported they had observed additional paint peeling from a portion of the LM's outer aluminum skin. Despite this, the crew discovered that the spacecraft's systems were performing nominally. Following the LM inspection, the crew reviewed checklists and procedures for the following days in anticipation of their arrival and the <a href="/wiki/Lunar_orbit" title="Lunar orbit">Lunar Orbit Insertion</a> (LOI) burn. Command Module Pilot Mattingly reported "<a href="/wiki/Gimbal_lock" title="Gimbal lock">gimbal lock</a>", meaning that the system to keep track of the craft's <a href="/wiki/Attitude_(aircraft)" class="mw-redirect" title="Attitude (aircraft)">attitude</a> was no longer accurate. Mattingly had to realign the guidance system using the Sun and Moon. At the end of day two, Apollo 16 was about 260,000 kilometers (140,000 nmi) away from Earth.<sup id="cite_ref-two_83-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-two-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the astronauts were awakened for flight day three, the spacecraft was about 291,000 kilometers (157,000 nmi) away from the Earth. The velocity of the craft steadily decreased, as it had not yet reached the lunar sphere of gravitational influence. The early part of day three was largely housekeeping, spacecraft maintenance and exchanging status reports with Mission Control in Houston. The crew performed the Apollo light flash experiment, or ALFMED, to investigate "light flashes" that were seen by Apollo lunar astronauts when the spacecraft was dark, regardless of whether their eyes were open. This was thought to be caused by the penetration of the <a href="/wiki/Human_eye" title="Human eye">eye</a> by <a href="/wiki/Cosmic_ray" title="Cosmic ray">cosmic ray</a> particles.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-alfmed_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-alfmed-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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. The systems were found to be functioning as expected. Following this, the crew donned their space suits and rehearsed procedures that would be used on landing day. Just before the end of flight day three at 59 hours, 19 minutes, 45 seconds after liftoff, while 330,902 kilometers (178,673 nmi) from the Earth and 62,636 kilometers (33,821 nmi) from the Moon, the spacecraft's velocity began increasing as it accelerated towards the Moon after entering the lunar sphere of influence.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After waking up on flight day four, the crew began preparations for the LOI maneuver that would brake them into orbit.<sup id="cite_ref-moonarrival_82-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-moonarrival-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At an altitude of 20,635 kilometers (11,142 nmi) the <a href="/wiki/Scientific_instrument_module" class="mw-redirect" title="Scientific instrument module">scientific instrument module</a> (SIM) bay cover was jettisoned. At just over 74 hours into the mission, the spacecraft passed behind the Moon, temporarily losing contact with Mission Control. While over the <a href="/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon" title="Far side of the Moon">far side</a>, the SPS burned for 6<span class="nowrap"> </span>minutes 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 315.6 km, respectively).<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After entering lunar orbit, the crew began preparations for the Descent Orbit Insertion (DOI) maneuver to further modify the spacecraft's orbital trajectory. The maneuver was successful, decreasing the craft's pericynthion to 19.8 kilometers (10.7 nmi). The remainder of flight day four was spent making observations and preparing for activation of the Lunar Module, undocking, and landing the following day.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Lunar_surface">Lunar surface</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Lunar surface"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Apollo_16_meeting.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Apollo_16_meeting.jpg/220px-Apollo_16_meeting.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Apollo_16_meeting.jpg/330px-Apollo_16_meeting.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f1/Apollo_16_meeting.jpg/440px-Apollo_16_meeting.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3744" data-file-height="2476" /></a><figcaption>NASA officials conferring on whether to allow the Apollo 16 landing, April 20, 1972</figcaption></figure> <p>The crew continued preparing for Lunar Module activation and undocking shortly after waking up to begin flight day five. The boom that extended the <a href="/wiki/Mass_spectrometry" title="Mass spectrometry">mass spectrometer</a> in the SIM bay was stuck, semi-deployed. It was decided that Young and Duke would visually inspect the boom after undocking the LM from the CSM. They entered the LM for activation and checkout of the spacecraft's systems. Despite entering the LM 40 minutes ahead of schedule, they completed preparations only 10 minutes early due to numerous delays in the process.<sup id="cite_ref-fullsummary_80-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fullsummary-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With the preparations finished, they undocked 96 hours, 13 minutes, 31 seconds into the mission.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-timeline_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timeline-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For the rest of the two crafts' passes over the <a href="/wiki/Near_side_of_the_Moon" title="Near side of the Moon">near side of the Moon</a>, Mattingly prepared to shift <i>Casper</i> to a higher, near-circular orbit, while Young and Duke prepared <i>Orion</i> for the descent to the lunar surface. 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. According to mission rules, under such circumstances, <i>Orion</i> was to re-dock with <i>Casper</i>, in case Mission Control decided to abort the landing and use the Lunar Module's engines for the return trip to Earth. Instead, the two craft <a href="/wiki/Orbital_station-keeping" title="Orbital station-keeping">kept station</a>, maintaining positions close to each other. After several hours of analysis, mission controllers determined that the malfunction could be worked around, and Young and Duke could proceed with the landing.<sup id="cite_ref-overview_44-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overview-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Powered descent to the lunar surface began about six hours behind schedule. Because of the delay, Young and Duke began their descent to the surface at an altitude higher than that of any previous mission, at 20.1 kilometers (10.9 nmi). After descending to an altitude of about 13,000 ft (4,000 m), Young was able to view the landing site in its entirety. Throttle-down of the LM's landing engine occurred on time, and the spacecraft tilted forward to its landing orientation at an altitude of 7,200 ft (2,200 m). The LM landed 890 ft (270 m) north and 200 ft (60 m) 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 (8:23:35 pm on April 20 in Houston).<sup id="cite_ref-fullsummary_80-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fullsummary-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-landing_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-landing-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The availability of the <a href="/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle" title="Lunar Roving Vehicle">Lunar Roving Vehicle</a> rendered their distance from the targeted point trivial.<sup id="cite_ref-overview_44-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overview-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After landing, Young and Duke began powering down some of the LM's systems to conserve battery power. Upon completing their initial procedures, the pair configured <i>Orion</i> for their three-day stay on the lunar surface, removed their space suits and took initial geological observations of the immediate landing site. They then settled down for their first meal on the surface. After eating, they configured the cabin for sleep.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The landing delay caused by the malfunction in the CSM's main engine necessitated significant modifications to the mission schedule. 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. In order to improve Young's and Duke's sleep schedule, the third and final moonwalk of the mission was trimmed from seven hours to five.<sup id="cite_ref-fullsummary_80-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fullsummary-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="First_moonwalk">First moonwalk</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: First moonwalk"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After waking up on April 21, Young and Duke ate breakfast and began preparations for the first extravehicular activity (EVA), or moonwalk.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the pair donned and pressurized their space suits and depressurized the Lunar Module cabin, Young climbed out onto the "porch" of the LM, a small platform above the ladder. Duke handed Young a jettison bag full of trash to dispose of on the surface.<sup id="cite_ref-briar_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-briar-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Young then lowered the equipment transfer bag (ETB), containing equipment for use during the EVA, to the surface. Young descended the ladder and, upon setting foot on the lunar surface, became the ninth human to walk on the Moon.<sup id="cite_ref-fullsummary_80-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fullsummary-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon stepping onto the surface, Young expressed his sentiments about being there: "There you are: Mysterious and unknown Descartes. Highland plains. Apollo 16 is gonna change your image. I'm sure glad they got ol' <a href="/wiki/Brer_Rabbit" class="mw-redirect" title="Brer Rabbit">Brer Rabbit</a>, here, back in the briar patch where he belongs."<sup id="cite_ref-briar_27-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-briar-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Duke soon descended the ladder and joined Young on the surface, becoming the tenth person to walk on the Moon. Duke was then aged 36; no younger human has ever walked on the lunar surface. Duke expressed his excitement, stating to CAPCOM Anthony England: "Fantastic! Oh, that first foot on the lunar surface is super, Tony!"<sup id="cite_ref-briar_27-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-briar-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The pair's first task of the moonwalk was to offload the Lunar Roving Vehicle, the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph,<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and other equipment. This was done without problems. On first driving the lunar rover, Young discovered that the rear steering was not working. He alerted Mission Control to the problem before setting up the television camera, after which Duke erected the United States <a href="/wiki/Lunar_Flag_Assembly" title="Lunar Flag Assembly">flag</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.<sup id="cite_ref-cdrdriver_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cdrdriver-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Haynes_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Haynes-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><span><video id="mwe_player_0" poster="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Ap16_rover.ogv/220px--Ap16_rover.ogv.jpg" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="220" height="165" data-durationhint="16" data-mwtitle="Ap16_rover.ogv" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons" resource="/wiki/File:Ap16_rover.ogv"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/Ap16_rover.ogv/Ap16_rover.ogv.480p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="480p.vp9.webm" data-width="640" data-height="480" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/Ap16_rover.ogv/Ap16_rover.ogv.720p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="720p.vp9.webm" data-width="960" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Ap16_rover.ogv" type="video/ogg; codecs="theora"" data-width="960" data-height="720" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/Ap16_rover.ogv/Ap16_rover.ogv.144p.mjpeg.mov" type="video/quicktime" data-transcodekey="144p.mjpeg.mov" data-width="192" data-height="144" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/Ap16_rover.ogv/Ap16_rover.ogv.240p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="240p.vp9.webm" data-width="320" data-height="240" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/Ap16_rover.ogv/Ap16_rover.ogv.360p.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp8, vorbis"" data-transcodekey="360p.webm" data-width="480" data-height="360" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/07/Ap16_rover.ogv/Ap16_rover.ogv.360p.vp9.webm" type="video/webm; codecs="vp9, opus"" data-transcodekey="360p.vp9.webm" data-width="480" data-height="360" /></video></span><figcaption>Young driving the LRV during the "Grand Prix"</figcaption></figure> <p>The day's next task was to deploy the ALSEP; while they were parking the lunar rover, on which the TV camera was mounted, to observe the deployment, the rear steering began functioning. After ALSEP deployment, they collected samples in the vicinity. About four hours after the beginning of EVA-1, they mounted the lunar rover and drove to the first geologic stop, Plum Crater, a 118 ft-wide (36 m) crater on the rim of <a href="/wiki/Flag_(crater)" title="Flag (crater)">Flag Crater</a>, about 240 m (790 ft) across. There, at a distance of 1.4 km (0.87 mi) from the LM, they sampled material in the vicinity, which scientists believed had penetrated through the upper regolith layer to the underlying <a href="/wiki/Cayley_(crater)" title="Cayley (crater)">Cayley Formation</a>. It was there that Duke retrieved, at the request of Mission Control, the largest rock returned by an Apollo mission, a <a href="/wiki/Breccia" title="Breccia">breccia</a> nicknamed <a href="/wiki/Big_Muley" title="Big Muley">Big Muley</a> after mission geology principal investigator <a href="/wiki/William_R._Muehlberger" title="William R. Muehlberger">William R. Muehlberger</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-honeysuckle_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-honeysuckle-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The next stop of the day was Buster Crater, a small crater located north of the larger <a href="/wiki/Spook_(crater)" title="Spook (crater)">Spook Crater</a>, about 1.6 km (0.99 mi) from the LM. There, Duke took pictures of Stone Mountain and South Ray Crater, while Young deployed the LPM.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By this point, scientists were beginning to reconsider their pre-mission hypothesis that Descartes had been the setting of ancient volcanic activity, as the two astronauts had yet to find any volcanic material. Following their stop at Buster, Young did a "Grand Prix" demonstration drive of the lunar rover, which Duke filmed with a <a href="/wiki/16_mm_film" title="16 mm film">16 mm</a> movie camera. This had been attempted on Apollo 15, but the camera had malfunctioned.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After completing more tasks at the ALSEP, they returned to the LM to close out the moonwalk. They reentered the LM 7<span class="nowrap"> </span>hours, 6<span class="nowrap"> </span>minutes, and 56 seconds after the start of the EVA. 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.<sup id="cite_ref-honeysuckle_101-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-honeysuckle-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Second_moonwalk">Second moonwalk</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Second moonwalk"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Young_and_Rover_on_the_Descartes_-_GPN-2000-001133.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Young_and_Rover_on_the_Descartes_-_GPN-2000-001133.jpg/290px-Young_and_Rover_on_the_Descartes_-_GPN-2000-001133.jpg" decoding="async" width="290" height="288" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Young_and_Rover_on_the_Descartes_-_GPN-2000-001133.jpg/435px-Young_and_Rover_on_the_Descartes_-_GPN-2000-001133.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Young_and_Rover_on_the_Descartes_-_GPN-2000-001133.jpg/580px-Young_and_Rover_on_the_Descartes_-_GPN-2000-001133.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3022" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>The view from the side of Stone Mountain, which Duke described as "spectacular"<sup id="cite_ref-station4_107-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-station4-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Waking up three and a half minutes earlier than planned, they discussed the day's timeline of events with Houston.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The second lunar excursion's primary objective was to visit Stone Mountain to climb up the slope of about 20 degrees to reach a cluster of five craters known as "<a href="/wiki/Cinco_(crater)" title="Cinco (crater)">Cinco craters</a>". They drove there in the LRV, traveling 3.8 km (2.4 mi) from the LM. At 152 m (499 ft) above the valley floor, the pair were at the highest elevation above the LM of any Apollo mission. They marveled at the view (including South Ray) from the side of Stone Mountain, which Duke described as "spectacular",<sup id="cite_ref-station4_107-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-station4-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> then gathered samples in the vicinity.<sup id="cite_ref-honeysuckle_101-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-honeysuckle-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After spending 54 minutes on the slope, they climbed aboard the lunar rover en route to the day's second stop, dubbed Station 5, a crater 20 m (66 ft) across. 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 samples they collected there, despite still uncertain origin, are according to geologist Wilhelms, "a reasonable bet to be Descartes".<sup id="cite_ref-honeysuckle_101-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-honeysuckle-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The next stop, Station 6, was a 10 m-wide (33 ft) blocky crater, where the astronauts believed they could sample the Cayley Formation as evidenced by the firmer soil found there. Bypassing station seven to save time, they arrived at Station 8 on the lower flank of Stone Mountain, where they sampled material on a ray from South Ray crater for about an hour. There, they collected black and white breccias and smaller, <a href="/wiki/Crystal" title="Crystal">crystalline</a> rocks rich in <a href="/wiki/Plagioclase" title="Plagioclase">plagioclase</a>. At Station 9, an area known as the "Vacant Lot",<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was believed to be free of ejecta from South Ray, they spent about 40 minutes gathering samples. Twenty-five minutes after departing the Vacant Lot, they arrived at the final stop of the day, halfway between the ALSEP site and the LM. There, they dug a double core and conducted several <a href="/wiki/Penetrometer" title="Penetrometer">penetrometer</a> tests along a line stretching 50 m (160 ft) east of the ALSEP. At the request of Young and Duke, the moonwalk was extended by ten minutes. 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 7<span class="nowrap"> </span>hours, 23 minutes, and 26 seconds of EVA time, breaking a record that had been set on Apollo 15.<sup id="cite_ref-honeysuckle_101-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-honeysuckle-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Third_moonwalk">Third moonwalk</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Third moonwalk"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:JSC2007e045382.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/JSC2007e045382.jpg/400px-JSC2007e045382.jpg" decoding="async" width="400" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/JSC2007e045382.jpg/600px-JSC2007e045382.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/JSC2007e045382.jpg/800px-JSC2007e045382.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4241" data-file-height="1815" /></a><figcaption>John Young adjusting the LRV's antenna near Shadow Rock</figcaption></figure> <p>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. During the third and final lunar excursion, they were to explore <a href="/wiki/North_Ray_(crater)" title="North Ray (crater)">North Ray</a> crater, the largest of any of the craters any Apollo expedition had visited. After exiting <i>Orion</i>, the pair drove to North Ray crater. The drive was smoother than that of the previous day, as the craters were shallower and boulders were less abundant north of the immediate landing site. After passing <a href="/wiki/Palmetto_(crater)" title="Palmetto (crater)">Palmetto</a> crater, boulders gradually became larger and more abundant as they approached North Ray in the lunar rover. Upon arriving at the rim of North Ray crater, they were 4.4 km (2.7 mi) away from the LM. After their arrival, the duo took photographs of the 1 km (0.62 mi) wide and 230 m (750 ft) deep crater. They visited a large boulder, taller than a four-story building, which became known as 'House Rock'. Samples obtained from this boulder delivered the final blow to the pre-mission volcanic hypothesis, proving it incorrect. House Rock had numerous bullet hole-like marks where <a href="/wiki/Micrometeoroid" title="Micrometeoroid">micrometeoroids</a> from space had impacted the rock.<sup id="cite_ref-honeysuckle_101-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-honeysuckle-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>About 1<span class="nowrap"> </span>hour and 22 minutes after arriving at the North Ray crater, they departed for Station 13, a large boulder field about 0.5 km (0.31 mi) from North Ray. On the way, they set a lunar speed record, traveling at an estimated 17.1 kilometers per hour (10.6 mph) downhill. They arrived at a 3 m (9.8 ft) high boulder, which they called "Shadow Rock". Here, they sampled permanently shadowed soil. During this time, Mattingly was preparing the CSM in anticipation of their return approximately six hours later. After three hours and six minutes, they returned to the LM, where they completed several experiments and unloaded the rover. A short distance from the LM, Duke placed a photograph of his family and an Air Force commemorative medallion on the surface.<sup id="cite_ref-honeysuckle_101-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-honeysuckle-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Young drove the rover to a point about 90 m (300 ft) 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 then reentered the LM after a 5-hour and 40-minute final excursion.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After pressurizing the LM cabin, the crew began preparing to return to lunar orbit.<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Solo_activities">Solo activities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Solo activities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Apollo_16_Command_and_Service_Module_Over_the_Moon_(9457443889).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Apollo_16_Command_and_Service_Module_Over_the_Moon_%289457443889%29.jpg/220px-Apollo_16_Command_and_Service_Module_Over_the_Moon_%289457443889%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="242" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Apollo_16_Command_and_Service_Module_Over_the_Moon_%289457443889%29.jpg/330px-Apollo_16_Command_and_Service_Module_Over_the_Moon_%289457443889%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Apollo_16_Command_and_Service_Module_Over_the_Moon_%289457443889%29.jpg/440px-Apollo_16_Command_and_Service_Module_Over_the_Moon_%289457443889%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2730" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption><i>Casper</i> above the Moon</figcaption></figure> <p>After <i>Orion</i> was cleared for the landing attempt, <i>Casper</i> maneuvered away, and Mattingly performed a burn that took his spacecraft to an orbit of 98.3 by 125.6 kilometers; 61.1 by 78.0 miles (53.1 by 67.8 nmi) in preparation for his scientific work.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-timeline_92-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timeline-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The SM carried a suite of scientific instruments in its SIM bay,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit86_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPress_Kit86-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> similar to those carried on Apollo 15.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMission_Report5-1_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMission_Report5-1-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChaikin_1995484–485_118-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChaikin_1995484–485-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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. It was immediately shut off, though later analysis indicated that the drain might have been from the spacecraft's heaters, which came on at the same time.<sup id="cite_ref-overvw_119-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overvw-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its work was also hampered by the delay in the beginning of <i>Casper'</i>s orbital scientific work and the early return to Earth, and by a malfunction resulting in the <a href="/wiki/Exposure_(photography)" title="Exposure (photography)">overexposure</a> of many of the photographs. Nevertheless, it was successful in taking a photograph of the Descartes area in which <i>Orion</i> is visible.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMission_Report5-7–5-8_120-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMission_Report5-7–5-8-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 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 <i>Casper</i> maneuvered away from <i>Orion</i> before the LM began its Moon landing attempt. 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. Scientists had hoped to supplement the lunar data gained with more on the trans-Earth coast, but Apollo 15 data could be used instead.<sup id="cite_ref-overvw_119-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overvw-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMission_Report5-4_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMission_Report5-4-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Mapping Camera also did not function perfectly; later analysis found it to have problems with its glare shield. 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.<sup id="cite_ref-overvw_119-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overvw-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMission_Report5-10–5-11_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMission_Report5-10–5-11-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Laser Altimeter, designed to accurately measure the spacecraft altitude, slowly lost accuracy due to reduced power, and finally failed just before it was due to be used for the last time.<sup id="cite_ref-overvw_119-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-overvw-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMission_Report5-11–5-12_123-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMission_Report5-11–5-12-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Return_to_Earth">Return to Earth</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Return to Earth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:S72-37001.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/S72-37001.jpg/220px-S72-37001.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="153" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/S72-37001.jpg/330px-S72-37001.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/S72-37001.jpg/440px-S72-37001.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2141" /></a><figcaption>Ken Mattingly performing his deep-space <a href="/wiki/Extravehicular_activity" title="Extravehicular activity">EVA</a>, retrieving film cassettes from the CSM's exterior</figcaption></figure> <p>Eight minutes before the planned departure from the lunar surface, CAPCOM <a href="/wiki/James_Irwin" title="James Irwin">James Irwin</a> notified Young and Duke from Mission Control that they were go for liftoff. 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 <a href="/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module#Descent_stage" title="Apollo Lunar Module">descent stage</a>, with cables connecting the two severed by a <a href="/wiki/Guillotine" title="Guillotine">guillotine</a>-like mechanism. 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. Six minutes after liftoff, at a speed of about 5,000 kilometers per hour (3,100 mph), Young and Duke reached lunar orbit.<sup id="cite_ref-honeysuckle_101-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-honeysuckle-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Young and Duke successfully rendezvoused and re-docked with Mattingly in the CSM. 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. After opening the hatch and reuniting with Mattingly, the crew transferred the samples Young and Duke had collected on the surface into the CSM for transfer to Earth. 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.<sup id="cite_ref-fullsummary_80-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fullsummary-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The next day, after final checks were completed, the expended LM ascent stage was jettisoned.<sup id="cite_ref-lmjett_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lmjett-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Likely because of a failure by the crew to activate a certain switch in the LM before sealing it off, it tumbled after separation. NASA could not control it, and it did not execute the rocket burn necessary for the craft's intentional de-orbit. The ascent stage eventually crashed into the lunar surface nearly a year after the mission. 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. 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. Just under five hours after the subsatellite release, on the CSM's 65th orbit around the Moon, its service propulsion system main engine was reignited to propel the craft on a trajectory that would return it to Earth. The SPS engine performed the burn flawlessly despite the malfunction that had delayed their landing several days previously.<sup id="cite_ref-fullsummary_80-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fullsummary-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-lmjett_125-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lmjett-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-Drew_126-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Drew-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At approximately 173,000 nautical miles (199,000 mi; 320,000 km) from Earth, it was the second "deep space" EVA in history, performed at great distance from any planetary body. As of 2024<sup class="plainlinks noexcerpt noprint asof-tag update" style="display:none;"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit">[update]</a></sup>, it remains one of only three such EVAs, all performed during Apollo's J-missions under similar circumstances. During the EVA, Mattingly set up a biological experiment, the Microbial Ecology Evaluation Device (MEED),<sup id="cite_ref-mattinglyafj_127-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mattinglyafj-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> an experiment unique to Apollo 16, to evaluate the response of microbes to the space environment.<sup id="cite_ref-meed_128-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-meed-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The crew carried out various housekeeping and maintenance tasks aboard the spacecraft and ate a meal before concluding the day.<sup id="cite_ref-mattinglyafj_127-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-mattinglyafj-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The penultimate day of the flight was largely spent performing experiments, aside from a twenty-minute press conference during the second half of the day. 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 <a href="/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson_Space_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center">Manned Spacecraft Center</a> in Houston by journalists covering the flight. In addition to numerous housekeeping tasks, the astronauts prepared the spacecraft for its <a href="/wiki/Atmospheric_entry" title="Atmospheric entry">atmospheric reentry</a> the next day. At the end of the crew's final full day in space, the spacecraft was approximately 143,000 kilometers (77,000 nmi) from Earth and closing at a rate of about 2.1 kilometers per second (7,000 ft/s).<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the wake-up call was issued to the crew for their final day in space by CAPCOM England, the CSM was about 45,000 nautical miles (83,000 km) from Earth, traveling just over 2.7 km/s (9,000 ft/s). Just over three hours before <a href="/wiki/Splashdown_(spacecraft_landing)" class="mw-redirect" title="Splashdown (spacecraft landing)">splashdown</a> in the Pacific Ocean, the crew performed a final course correction burn, using the spacecraft's thrusters to change their velocity by 0.43 m/s (1.4 ft/s). Approximately ten minutes before reentry into Earth's atmosphere, the cone-shaped command module containing the three crewmembers separated from the service module, which would burn up during reentry. At 265 hours and 37 minutes into the mission, at a velocity of about 11 km/s (36,000 ft/s), Apollo 16 began atmospheric reentry. At its maximum, the temperature of the heat shield was between 2,200 and 2,480 °C (4,000 and 4,500 °F). After successful parachute deployment and less than 14 minutes after reentry began, the command module splashed down in the Pacific Ocean 350 kilometers (189 nmi) southeast of the island of <a href="/wiki/Kiritimati" title="Kiritimati">Kiritimati</a> 265 hours, 51 minutes, 5<span class="nowrap"> </span>seconds after liftoff.<sup id="cite_ref-timeline_92-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timeline-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The spacecraft and its crew was retrieved by the aircraft carrier <a href="/wiki/USS_Ticonderoga_(CV-14)" title="USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)">USS <i>Ticonderoga</i></a>. The astronauts were safely aboard the <i>Ticonderoga</i> 37 minutes after splashdown.<sup id="cite_ref-fullsummary_80-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fullsummary-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scientific_results_and_aftermath">Scientific results and aftermath</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Scientific results and aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Scientific analysis of the rocks brought back to Earth confirmed that the Cayley Formation was not volcanic in nature. There was less certainty regarding the Descartes Formation, as it was not clear which if any of the rocks came from there. There was no evidence that showed that Stone Mountain was volcanic. 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 <a href="/wiki/Fra_Mauro_Formation" class="mw-redirect" title="Fra Mauro Formation">Fra Mauro Formation</a>, Apollo 14's landing site. 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 concluded that there are few if any volcanic mountains on the Moon. 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 Formation—it fit right in with the Mare Imbrium structure. Other results gained from Apollo 16 included the discovery of two new auroral belts around Earth.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006483–484_132-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006483–484-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the mission, Young and Duke served as backups for <a href="/wiki/Apollo_17" title="Apollo 17">Apollo 17</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006507–508_133-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrloff_&_Harland_2006507–508-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Duke retired from NASA in December 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-duke_bio_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-duke_bio-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Young and Mattingly both flew the <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle" title="Space Shuttle">Space Shuttle</a>: Young, who served as <a href="/wiki/Chief_Astronaut" class="mw-redirect" title="Chief Astronaut">Chief Astronaut</a> from 1974 to 1987, commanded the first Space Shuttle mission, <a href="/wiki/STS-1" title="STS-1">STS-1</a> in 1981, as well as <a href="/wiki/STS-9" title="STS-9">STS-9</a> in 1983, on the latter mission becoming the first person to journey into space six times. He retired from NASA in 2004.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Mattingly also twice commanded Shuttle missions, <a href="/wiki/STS-4" title="STS-4">STS-4</a> (1982) and <a href="/wiki/STS-51-C" title="STS-51-C">STS-51-C</a> (1985), before retiring from NASA in 1985.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Locations_of_spacecraft_and_other_equipment">Locations of spacecraft and other equipment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Locations of spacecraft and other equipment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Apollo_16_capsule.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Apollo_16_capsule.JPG/290px-Apollo_16_capsule.JPG" decoding="async" width="290" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Apollo_16_capsule.JPG/435px-Apollo_16_capsule.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/Apollo_16_capsule.JPG/580px-Apollo_16_capsule.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4752" data-file-height="3168" /></a><figcaption>Command module <i>Casper</i> at the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Space_%26_Rocket_Center" title="U.S. Space & Rocket Center">U.S. Space & Rocket Center</a> in <a href="/wiki/Huntsville,_Alabama" title="Huntsville, Alabama">Huntsville, Alabama</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <i>Ticonderoga</i> delivered the Apollo 16 command module to the <a href="/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_North_Island" title="Naval Air Station North Island">North Island Naval Air Station</a>, near San Diego, California, on Friday, May 5, 1972. 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. Forty-six people were sent to the hospital for 24 to 48 hours' observation, most suffering from inhalation of toxic fumes. Most seriously injured was a technician who suffered a fractured kneecap when a cart overturned on him. A hole was blown in the hangar roof 250 feet above; about 40 windows in the hangar were shattered. The command module suffered a three-inch gash in one panel.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Apollo 16 command module <i>Casper</i> is on display at the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Space_%26_Rocket_Center" title="U.S. Space & Rocket Center">U.S. Space & Rocket Center</a> in <a href="/wiki/Huntsville,_Alabama" title="Huntsville, Alabama">Huntsville, Alabama</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> following a transfer of ownership from NASA to the <a href="/wiki/Smithsonian_Institution" title="Smithsonian Institution">Smithsonian</a> in November 1973.<sup id="cite_ref-hardware_139-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hardware-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Lunar Module ascent stage separated from the CSM on April 24, 1972, but NASA lost control of it. It orbited the Moon for about a year. Its impact site remains unknown,<sup id="cite_ref-:0_140-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though research published in 2023 suggests an impact date of May 29, 1972 (the same as for the subsattelite) and an impact location of 9.99° N, 104.26° E.<sup id="cite_ref-141" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The S-IVB was deliberately crashed into the Moon. However, due to a communication failure before impact the exact location was unknown until January 2016, when it was discovered within <a href="/wiki/Mare_Insularum" title="Mare Insularum">Mare Insularum</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter" title="Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter</a>, approximately 260 km (160 mi) southwest of <a href="/wiki/Copernicus_(lunar_crater)" title="Copernicus (lunar crater)">Copernicus Crater</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-fullsummary_80-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fullsummary-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_140-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-142" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Charlie_Duke%27s_family_portrait_left_on_the_surface_of_the_moon.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Charlie_Duke%27s_family_portrait_left_on_the_surface_of_the_moon.jpg/220px-Charlie_Duke%27s_family_portrait_left_on_the_surface_of_the_moon.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="222" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Charlie_Duke%27s_family_portrait_left_on_the_surface_of_the_moon.jpg/330px-Charlie_Duke%27s_family_portrait_left_on_the_surface_of_the_moon.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Charlie_Duke%27s_family_portrait_left_on_the_surface_of_the_moon.jpg/440px-Charlie_Duke%27s_family_portrait_left_on_the_surface_of_the_moon.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2340" data-file-height="2364" /></a><figcaption>Duke left a photo of his family on the Moon.</figcaption></figure> <p>Duke left two items on the Moon, both of which he photographed while there. One is a plastic-encased photo portrait of his family. 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. Landed on the Moon, April 1972." The other item was a commemorative medal issued by the United States Air Force, which was celebrating its 25th anniversary in 1972. He took two medals, leaving one on the Moon and donating the other to the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_the_United_States_Air_Force" title="National Museum of the United States Air Force">National Museum of the United States Air Force</a> at <a href="/wiki/Wright-Patterson_Air_Force_Base" title="Wright-Patterson Air Force Base">Wright-Patterson Air Force Base</a> in Ohio.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESwanson_1999281–282_143-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESwanson_1999281–282-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2006, shortly after <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Ernesto_(2006)" title="Hurricane Ernesto (2006)">Hurricane Ernesto</a> affected <a href="/wiki/Bath,_North_Carolina" title="Bath, North Carolina">Bath, North Carolina</a>, eleven-year-old Kevin Schanze discovered a piece of metal debris on the ground near his beach home. Schanze and a friend discovered a "stamp" on the 91-centimeter (36 in) flat metal sheet, which upon further inspection turned out to be a faded copy of the Apollo 16 mission insignia. NASA later confirmed the object to be a piece of the first stage of the Saturn<span class="nowrap"> </span>V that had launched Apollo 16 into space. 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 <a href="/wiki/STS-135" title="STS-135">STS-135</a>, the final mission of the <a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program" title="Space Shuttle program">Space Shuttle program</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects_on_the_Moon" title="List of artificial objects on the Moon">List of artificial objects on the Moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon" title="List of missions to the Moon">List of missions to the Moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_spacewalks_and_moonwalks_1965%E2%80%931999" title="List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999">List of spacewalks and moonwalks 1965–1999</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Apollo_16&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="Public Domain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/12px-PD-icon.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/62/PD-icon.svg/18px-PD-icon.svg.png 1.5x, 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href="/wiki/Saturn_IB" title="Saturn IB">Saturn IB</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saturn_V" title="Saturn V">Saturn V</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Spacecraft and rover</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_(spacecraft)" title="Apollo (spacecraft)">Apollo spacecraft</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_command_and_service_module" title="Apollo command and service module">Command and Service Module</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module" title="Apollo Lunar Module">Lunar Module</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle" title="Lunar Roving Vehicle">Lunar Roving Vehicle</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Flights</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Uncrewed</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AS-101" title="AS-101">AS-101</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AS-102" title="AS-102">AS-102</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AS-201" title="AS-201">AS-201</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AS-202" title="AS-202">AS-202</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_4" title="Apollo 4">Apollo 4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_5" title="Apollo 5">Apollo 5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_6" title="Apollo 6">Apollo 6</a><sup>†</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Crewed</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_1" title="Apollo 1">Apollo 1</a><sup>†</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_7" title="Apollo 7">Apollo 7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_8" title="Apollo 8">Apollo 8</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_9" title="Apollo 9">Apollo 9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_10" title="Apollo 10">Apollo 10</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_11" title="Apollo 11">Apollo 11</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_12" title="Apollo 12">Apollo 12</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_13" title="Apollo 13">Apollo 13</a><sup>†</sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_14" title="Apollo 14">Apollo 14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_15" title="Apollo 15">Apollo 15</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Apollo 16</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_17" title="Apollo 17">Apollo 17</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Saturn<br />development</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Saturn_I_SA-1" title="Saturn I SA-1">Saturn-Apollo 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saturn_I_SA-2" title="Saturn I SA-2">SA-2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saturn_I_SA-3" title="Saturn I SA-3">SA-3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saturn_I_SA-4" title="Saturn I SA-4">SA-4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Saturn_I_SA-5" title="Saturn I SA-5">SA-5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AS-203" title="AS-203">AS-203</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_4" title="Apollo 4">Apollo 4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_6" title="Apollo 6">Apollo 6</a><sup>†</sup></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Apollo_abort_modes" title="Apollo abort modes">Abort tests</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Little_Joe_II_Qualification_Test_Vehicle" title="Little Joe II Qualification Test Vehicle">QTV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pad_Abort_Test_1" title="Pad Abort Test 1">Pad Abort Test-1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A-001" title="A-001">A-001</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A-002" title="A-002">A-002</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A-003" title="A-003">A-003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pad_Abort_Test_2" title="Pad Abort Test 2">Pad Abort Test-2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A-004" title="A-004">A-004</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Pegasus_(satellite)" title="Pegasus (satellite)">Pegasus</a> flights</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AS-103" title="AS-103">AS-103</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AS-104" title="AS-104">AS-104</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AS-105" title="AS-105">AS-105</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Apollo 8 specific</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Earthrise" title="Earthrise">Earthrise</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_8_Genesis_reading" title="Apollo 8 Genesis reading">Genesis reading</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Apollo 11 specific</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Command_module_Columbia" title="Command module Columbia">Command Module <i>Columbia</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Module_Eagle" title="Lunar Module Eagle">Lunar Module <i>Eagle</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tranquility_Base" title="Tranquility Base">Tranquility Base</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Double_(lunar_crater)" title="Double (lunar crater)">Double crater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_West_(lunar_crater)" title="Little West (lunar crater)">Little West crater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_11_goodwill_messages" title="Apollo 11 goodwill messages">Goodwill messages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_11_lunar_sample_display" title="Apollo 11 lunar sample display">Lunar sample displays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_11_missing_tapes" title="Apollo 11 missing tapes">Missing tapes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_11_anniversaries" title="Apollo 11 anniversaries">Anniversaries</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_11_50th_Anniversary_commemorative_coins" title="Apollo 11 50th Anniversary commemorative coins">50th Anniversary commemorative coins</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_11_in_popular_culture" title="Apollo 11 in popular culture">In popular culture</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Apollo 12 specific</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mare_Cognitum#Statio_Cognitum" title="Mare Cognitum">Statio Cognitum</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Surveyor_3" title="Surveyor 3">Surveyor 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surveyor_(crater)" title="Surveyor (crater)">Surveyor crater</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bench_Crater_meteorite" title="Bench Crater meteorite">Bench Crater meteorite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J002E3" title="J002E3">J002E3</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Moon_Museum" title="Moon Museum">Moon Museum</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reports_of_Streptococcus_mitis_on_the_Moon" title="Reports of Streptococcus mitis on the Moon">Reports of <i>Streptococcus mitis</i> on the Moon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Apollo 13 specific</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Houston,_we_have_a_problem" title="Houston, we have a problem">"Houston, we've had a problem"</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Apollo 14 specific</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Modular_Equipment_Transporter" title="Modular Equipment Transporter">Modular Equipment Transporter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fra_Mauro_formation" title="Fra Mauro formation">Fra Mauro formation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Big_Bertha_(lunar_sample)" title="Big Bertha (lunar sample)">Big Bertha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moon_tree" title="Moon tree">Moon tree</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Apollo 15 specific</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Journey_of_Apollo_15_to_the_Moon" title="Journey of Apollo 15 to the Moon">Journey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_15_operations_on_the_Lunar_surface" title="Apollo 15 operations on the Lunar surface">Lunar operations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solo_operations_of_Apollo_15" title="Solo operations of Apollo 15">Solo operations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Return_of_Apollo_15_to_Earth" title="Return of Apollo 15 to Earth">Return to Earth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hadley%E2%80%93Apennine" title="Hadley–Apennine">Hadley–Apennine</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fallen_Astronaut" title="Fallen Astronaut">Fallen Astronaut</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Genesis_Rock" title="Genesis Rock">Genesis Rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Scott_(lunar_sample)" title="Great Scott (lunar sample)">Great Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hadley_Rille_meteorite" title="Hadley Rille meteorite">Hadley Rille meteorite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seatbelt_basalt" title="Seatbelt basalt">Seatbelt basalt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_15_postal_covers_incident" title="Apollo 15 postal covers incident">Postal covers incident</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Apollo 16 specific</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Big_Muley" title="Big Muley">Big Muley</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Apollo 17 specific</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Blue_Marble" title="The Blue Marble">The Blue Marble</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taurus%E2%80%93Littrow" title="Taurus–Littrow">Taurus–Littrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tracy%27s_Rock" title="Tracy's Rock">Tracy's Rock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nansen-Apollo_(crater)" title="Nansen-Apollo (crater)">Nansen-Apollo crater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shorty_(crater)" title="Shorty (crater)">Shorty crater</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_17_lunar_sample_display" title="Apollo 17 lunar sample display">Lunar sample display</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_basalt_70017" title="Lunar basalt 70017">Lunar basalt 70017</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Troctolite_76535" title="Troctolite 76535">Troctolite 76535</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ALSE" title="ALSE">Apollo Lunar Sounder Experiment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fe,_Fi,_Fo,_Fum,_and_Phooey" title="Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey">Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Apollo_Applications_Program" title="Apollo Applications Program">Post-Apollo</a><br />capsule use</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Skylab" title="Skylab">Skylab</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Skylab_2" title="Skylab 2">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skylab_3" title="Skylab 3">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skylab_4" title="Skylab 4">4</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo%E2%80%93Soyuz" title="Apollo–Soyuz">Apollo–Soyuz</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_orbit_rendezvous" title="Lunar orbit rendezvous">Lunar orbit rendezvous</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stolen_and_missing_Moon_rocks" title="Stolen and missing Moon rocks">Stolen and missing Moon rocks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings" title="Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings">Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="3"><div> <ul><li>Symbol <sup>†</sup> indicates failure or partial failure</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;">Robotic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_4" title="Chang'e 4">Chang'e 4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_6" title="Chang'e 6">Chang'e 6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IM-1" title="IM-1">IM-1</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/EagleCam" class="mw-redirect" title="EagleCam">EagleCam</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smart_Lander_for_Investigating_Moon" title="Smart Lander for Investigating Moon">SLIM</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center; background:#CCCCCC;;width:1%">Past</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;">Crewed</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_11" title="Apollo 11">Apollo 11</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_12" title="Apollo 12">12</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_14" title="Apollo 14">14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_15" title="Apollo 15">15</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">16</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_17" title="Apollo 17">17</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;">Robotic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chandrayaan-3" title="Chandrayaan-3">Chandrayaan-3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_3" title="Chang'e 3">Chang'e 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_5" 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_13" title="Apollo 13">Apollo 13</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beresheet" title="Beresheet">Beresheet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrayaan-2" title="Chandrayaan-2">Chandrayaan-2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hakuto-R_Mission_1" title="Hakuto-R Mission 1">Hakuto-R M1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_5" title="Luna 5">Luna 5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_7" title="Luna 7">7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_8" title="Luna 8">8</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_15" title="Luna 15">15</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_18" title="Luna 18">18</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_25" title="Luna 25">25</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OMOTENASHI" title="OMOTENASHI">OMOTENASHI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peregrine_Mission_One" title="Peregrine Mission One">Peregrine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surveyor_2" title="Surveyor 2">Surveyor 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surveyor_4" title="Surveyor 4">4</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center; background:#CCCCCC;;width:1%">Planned</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Artemis_program" title="Artemis program">Artemis</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Artemis_III" title="Artemis III">Artemis III</a> (2026)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemis_IV" title="Artemis IV">IV</a> (2028)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemis_V" title="Artemis V">V</a> (2030)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemis_VI" class="mw-redirect" title="Artemis VI">VI</a> (2031)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemis_VII" class="mw-redirect" title="Artemis VII">VII</a> (2032)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Program" title="Chinese Lunar Exploration Program">CLEP</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_7" title="Chang'e 7">7</a> (2026)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_8" title="Chang'e 8">8</a> (2028)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Commercial_Lunar_Payload_Services" title="Commercial Lunar Payload Services">CLPS</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Firefly_Aerospace#Blue_Ghost_lunar_lander" title="Firefly Aerospace">Blue Ghost M1</a> (2024)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Firefly_Aerospace#Blue_Ghost_lunar_lander" title="Firefly Aerospace">M2</a> (2026)</li></ul> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/IM-2" title="IM-2">IM-2</a> (2025)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/IM-3" class="mw-redirect" title="IM-3">IM-3</a> (2025)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Luna-Glob" title="Luna-Glob">Luna-Glob</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Luna_27" title="Luna 27">Luna 27</a> (2028)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_28" title="Luna 28">28</a> (2030)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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Exploration Program">Japanese Lunar Exploration Program</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korea_Aerospace_Research_Institute" title="Korea Aerospace Research Institute">South Korean</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Danuri" title="Danuri">Danuri</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roscosmos" title="Roscosmos">Russian</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Luna-Glob" title="Luna-Glob">Luna-Glob</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_space_program" title="Soviet space program">Soviet</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Soviet_crewed_lunar_programs" title="Soviet crewed lunar programs">Crewed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_programme" title="Luna programme">Luna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunokhod_programme" title="Lunokhod programme">Lunokhod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zond_program" title="Zond program">Zond</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;;width:1%">Active<br />missions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;">Orbiters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/THEMIS#ARTEMIS" title="THEMIS">ARTEMIS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/CAPSTONE" title="CAPSTONE">CAPSTONE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrayaan-2" title="Chandrayaan-2">Chandrayaan-2</a> Orbiter</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_5-T1" title="Chang'e 5-T1">Chang'e 5-T1</a> (service module)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danuri" title="Danuri">Danuri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter" title="Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queqiao_relay_satellite" class="mw-redirect" title="Queqiao relay satellite">Queqiao 1</a> (relay satellite at <a href="/wiki/Lagrange_point#L2" title="Lagrange point">L<sub>2</sub></a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Queqiao-2_relay_satellite" class="mw-redirect" title="Queqiao-2 relay satellite">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiandu" title="Tiandu">Tiandu-1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiandu" title="Tiandu">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ICUBE-Q" title="ICUBE-Q">ICUBE-Q</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;">Landers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_3" title="Chang'e 3">Chang'e 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_4" title="Chang'e 4">4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smart_Lander_for_Investigating_Moon" title="Smart Lander for Investigating Moon">SLIM</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;">Rovers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Yutu-2" title="Yutu-2">Yutu-2</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;">Flybys</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ArgoMoon" title="ArgoMoon">ArgoMoon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;;width:1%">Past<br />missions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;">Crewed landings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_11" title="Apollo 11">Apollo 11</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_12" title="Apollo 12">12</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_14" title="Apollo 14">14</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_15" title="Apollo 15">15</a></i></li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">16</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_17" title="Apollo 17">17</a></i></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts" title="List of Apollo astronauts">List of Apollo astronauts</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;">Orbiters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_8" title="Apollo 8">Apollo 8</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_10" title="Apollo 10">10</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module" title="Apollo Lunar Module">Apollo Lunar Module</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemis_I" title="Artemis I">Artemis I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_1" title="Chang'e 1">Chang'e 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_2" title="Chang'e 2">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_5" title="Chang'e 5">5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrayaan-1" title="Chandrayaan-1">Chandrayaan-1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrayaan-3" title="Chandrayaan-3">Chandrayaan-3</a> (propulsion module)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clementine_(spacecraft)" title="Clementine (spacecraft)">Clementine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Explorer_35" title="Explorer 35">Explorer 35</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Explorer_49" title="Explorer 49">49</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GRAIL" title="GRAIL">GRAIL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hiten_(spacecraft)" title="Hiten (spacecraft)">Hiten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LADEE" title="LADEE">LADEE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_4#Microsatellites" title="Chang'e 4">Longjiang-2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_10" title="Luna 10">Luna 10</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_11" title="Luna 11">11</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_12" title="Luna 12">12</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_14" title="Luna 14">14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_19" title="Luna 19">19</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_22" title="Luna 22">22</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_1" title="Lunar Orbiter 1">Lunar Orbiter 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_2" title="Lunar Orbiter 2">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_3" title="Lunar Orbiter 3">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_4" title="Lunar Orbiter 4">4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_5" title="Lunar Orbiter 5">5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Prospector" title="Lunar Prospector">Lunar Prospector</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_15#Lunar_subsatellite" title="Apollo 15">PFS-1</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Lunar_subsatellite_PFS-2">PFS-2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SMART-1" title="SMART-1">SMART-1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SELENE" title="SELENE">SELENE (Kaguya, Okina, Ouna)</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Spacecraft_that_impacted_the_Moon" title="Category:Spacecraft that impacted the Moon">Impactors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LCROSS" title="LCROSS">LCROSS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_2" title="Luna 2">Luna 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moon_Impact_Probe" title="Moon Impact Probe">Moon Impact Probe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranger_4" title="Ranger 4">Ranger 4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranger_6" title="Ranger 6">6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranger_7" title="Ranger 7">7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranger_8" title="Ranger 8">8</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranger_9" title="Ranger 9">9</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Moon_landing" title="Moon landing">Landers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_Lunar_Module" title="Apollo Lunar Module">Apollo Lunar Module</a></i> ×6</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_5" title="Chang'e 5">Chang'e 5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_6" title="Chang'e 6">6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_9" title="Luna 9">Luna 9</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_13" title="Luna 13">13</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_16" title="Luna 16">16</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_17" title="Luna 17">17</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_20" title="Luna 20">20</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_21" title="Luna 21">21</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_23" title="Luna 23">23</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_24" title="Luna 24">24</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surveyor_1" title="Surveyor 1">Surveyor 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surveyor_3" title="Surveyor 3">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surveyor_5" title="Surveyor 5">5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surveyor_6" title="Surveyor 6">6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surveyor_7" title="Surveyor 7">7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrayaan-3" title="Chandrayaan-3">Vikram</a> (Chandrayaan-3)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/EagleCam" class="mw-redirect" title="EagleCam">EagleCam</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IM-1" title="IM-1">IM-1</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Lunar_rover" title="Lunar rover">Rovers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle" title="Lunar Roving Vehicle">Lunar Roving Vehicle</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_15" title="Apollo 15">Apollo 15</a></i></li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">16</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_17" title="Apollo 17">17</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunokhod_1" title="Lunokhod 1">Lunokhod 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunokhod_2" title="Lunokhod 2">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yutu_(rover)" title="Yutu (rover)">Yutu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pragyan_(Chandrayaan-2)" title="Pragyan (Chandrayaan-2)">Pragyan (Chandrayaan-2)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pragyan_(Chandrayaan-3)" title="Pragyan (Chandrayaan-3)">(Chandrayaan-3)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smart_Lander_for_Investigating_Moon#Lunar_Excursion_Vehicle_1" title="Smart Lander for Investigating Moon">LEV-1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smart_Lander_for_Investigating_Moon#Lunar_Excursion_Vehicle_2" title="Smart Lander for Investigating Moon">LEV-2</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sora-Q" title="Sora-Q">Sora-Q</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_6" title="Chang'e 6">Jinchan</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Sample-return_mission" title="Sample-return mission">Sample return</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_11" title="Apollo 11">Apollo 11</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_12" title="Apollo 12">12</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_14" title="Apollo 14">14</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_15" title="Apollo 15">15</a></i></li> <li><i><a class="mw-selflink selflink">16</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_17" title="Apollo 17">17</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_16" title="Luna 16">Luna 16</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_20" title="Luna 20">20</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_24" title="Luna 24">24</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_5" title="Chang'e 5">Chang'e 5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_6" title="Chang'e 6">6</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;">Failed landings</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beresheet" title="Beresheet">Beresheet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emirates_Lunar_Mission" title="Emirates Lunar Mission">Emirates Lunar Mission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hakuto-R_Mission_1" title="Hakuto-R Mission 1">Hakuto-R M1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_5" title="Luna 5">Luna 5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_7" title="Luna 7">7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_8" title="Luna 8">8</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_15" title="Luna 15">15</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_18" title="Luna 18">18</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_25" title="Luna 25">25</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OMOTENASHI" title="OMOTENASHI">OMOTENASHI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surveyor_2" title="Surveyor 2">Surveyor 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surveyor_4" title="Surveyor 4">4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chandrayaan-2#Vikram_lander" title="Chandrayaan-2">Vikram</a> (Chandrayaan-2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peregrine_Mission_One" title="Peregrine Mission One">Peregrine Mission One</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Category:Lunar_flybys" title="Category:Lunar flybys">Flybys</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Manfred_Memorial_Moon_Mission" title="Manfred Memorial Moon Mission">4M</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Apollo_13" title="Apollo 13">Apollo 13</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_5-T1" title="Chang'e 5-T1">Chang'e 5-T1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geotail" title="Geotail">Geotail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galileo_project" title="Galileo project">Galileo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Cometary_Explorer" title="International Cometary Explorer">ICE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_4#Microsatellites" title="Chang'e 4">Longjiang-1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_1" title="Luna 1">Luna 1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_3" title="Luna 3">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_4" title="Luna 4">4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_6" title="Luna 6">6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Polar_Hydrogen_Mapper" title="Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper">LunaH-Map</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Flashlight" title="Lunar Flashlight">Lunar Flashlight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_IceCube" title="Lunar IceCube">Lunar IceCube</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LunIR" title="LunIR">LunIR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariner_10" title="Mariner 10">Mariner 10</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Near-Earth_Asteroid_Scout" title="Near-Earth Asteroid Scout">NEA Scout</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nozomi_(spacecraft)" title="Nozomi (spacecraft)">Nozomi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_4" title="Pioneer 4">Pioneer 4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranger_5" title="Ranger 5">Ranger 5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/STEREO" title="STEREO">STEREO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transiting_Exoplanet_Survey_Satellite" title="Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite">TESS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilkinson_Microwave_Anisotropy_Probe" title="Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe">WMAP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wind_(spacecraft)" title="Wind (spacecraft)">Wind</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zond_3" title="Zond 3">Zond 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zond_5" title="Zond 5">5</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zond_6" title="Zond 6">6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zond_7" title="Zond 7">7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zond_8" title="Zond 8">8</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PAS-22" title="PAS-22">PAS-22</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;;width:1%">Planned<br />missions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Artemis_program" title="Artemis program">Artemis</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Artemis_II" title="Artemis II">Artemis II</a></i> (2025)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Gateway" title="Lunar Gateway">Lunar Gateway</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Artemis_III" title="Artemis III">Artemis III</a></i> (2026)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Artemis_IV" title="Artemis IV">Artemis IV</a></i> (2028)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Artemis_V" title="Artemis V">Artemis V</a></i> (2030)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Artemis_VI" class="mw-redirect" title="Artemis VI">Artemis VI</a></i> (2031)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Artemis_VII" class="mw-redirect" title="Artemis VII">Artemis VII</a></i> (2032)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Artemis_VIII" class="mw-redirect" title="Artemis VIII">Artemis VIII</a></i> (2033)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Commercial_Lunar_Payload_Services" title="Commercial Lunar Payload Services">CLPS</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Firefly_Aerospace_Blue_Ghost" title="Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost">Firefly Aerospace Blue Ghost</a> (2024)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/IM-2" title="IM-2">IM-2</a> (2025) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Trailblazer" title="Lunar Trailblazer">Lunar Trailblazer</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Luna-Glob" title="Luna-Glob">Luna-Glob</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Luna_26" title="Luna 26">Luna 26</a> (2027)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_27" title="Luna 27">Luna 27</a> (2028)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_28" title="Luna 28">Luna 28</a> (2030)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Luna_29&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Luna 29 (page does not exist)">Luna 29</a> (2030s)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Luna_30&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Luna 30 (page does not exist)">Luna 30</a> (2030s)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Luna_31&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Luna 31 (page does not exist)">Luna 31</a> (2030s)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Program" title="Chinese Lunar Exploration Program">CLEP</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_7" title="Chang'e 7">Chang'e 7</a> (2026)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_8" title="Chang'e 8">Chang'e 8</a> (2028)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Chandrayaan_programme" title="Chandrayaan programme">Chandrayaan</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Chandrayaan-4" title="Chandrayaan-4">Chandrayaan-4</a> (2027)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Polar_Exploration_Mission" title="Lunar Polar Exploration Mission">Chandrayaan-5 (LUPEX)</a> (2028)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;">Others</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hakuto-R_Mission_2" title="Hakuto-R Mission 2">Hakuto-R M2</a> (2024)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Beresheet_2" title="Beresheet 2">Beresheet 2</a> (2025)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ispace_(Japanese_company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ispace (Japanese company)">ispace M3</a> (2026)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Pathfinder" class="mw-redirect" title="Lunar Pathfinder">Lunar Pathfinder</a> (2026)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/DESTINY%2B" title="DESTINY+">DESTINY<sup>+</sup></a> (2028)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cislunar_Explorers" title="Cislunar Explorers">Cislunar Explorers</a> (2020s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earth_Escape_Explorer" title="Earth Escape Explorer">CU-E<sup>3</sup></a> (2020s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astrobotic_Technology#Rovers" title="Astrobotic Technology">MoonRanger</a> (2020s)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Argonaut_(lunar_lander)" title="Argonaut (lunar lander)">Argonaut M1</a> (2031)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Lunar_Research_Station" title="International Lunar Research Station">International Lunar Research Station</a> (2030s)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;;width:1%">Proposed<br />missions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;">Robotic</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Planetary_Transportation_Systems" title="Planetary Transportation Systems">ALINA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Draper_Laboratory#Commercial_Lunar_Payload_Services" title="Draper Laboratory">Artemis-7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blue_Moon_(spacecraft)" title="Blue Moon (spacecraft)">Blue Moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BOLAS_(spacecraft)" title="BOLAS (spacecraft)">BOLAS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garat%C3%A9a-L" title="Garatéa-L">Garatéa-L</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ISOCHRON_(spacecraft)" title="ISOCHRON (spacecraft)">ISOCHRON</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LunaNet" title="LunaNet">LunaNet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Crater_Radio_Telescope" title="Lunar Crater Radio Telescope">Lunar Crater Radio Telescope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McCandless_Lunar_Lander" title="McCandless Lunar Lander">McCandless</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moon_Diver_(spacecraft)" title="Moon Diver (spacecraft)">Moon Diver</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;">Crewed</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/DSE-Alpha" title="DSE-Alpha">DSE-Alpha</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Boeing_Lunar_Lander" title="Boeing Lunar Lander">Boeing Lunar Lander</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_Lunar_Lander" title="Lockheed Martin Lunar Lander">Lockheed Martin Lunar Lander</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Orbital_Station" title="Lunar Orbital Station">Lunar Orbital Station</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;;width:1%">Cancelled /<br />concepts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Altair_(spacecraft)" title="Altair (spacecraft)">Altair</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg_1" title="Baden-Württemberg 1">Baden-Württemberg 1</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DearMoon_project" title="DearMoon project">#dearMoon project</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/European_Lunar_Explorer" title="European Lunar Explorer">European Lunar Explorer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/First_Lunar_Outpost" title="First Lunar Outpost">First Lunar Outpost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Lunar_Network" title="International Lunar Network">International Lunar Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LEO_(spacecraft)" title="LEO (spacecraft)">LEO</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/LK_(spacecraft)" title="LK (spacecraft)">LK</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar-A" title="Lunar-A">Lunar-A</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Lander_(spacecraft)" title="Lunar Lander (spacecraft)">Lunar Lander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Mission_One" title="Lunar Mission One">Lunar Mission One</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planetary_Observer_program" title="Planetary Observer program">Lunar Observer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunokhod_3" class="mw-redirect" title="Lunokhod 3">Lunokhod 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MoonLITE" title="MoonLITE">MoonLITE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MoonRise" title="MoonRise">MoonRise</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OrbitBeyond" title="OrbitBeyond">OrbitBeyond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Harvest_Moon" title="Project Harvest Moon">Project Harvest Moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prospector_(spacecraft)" title="Prospector (spacecraft)">Prospector</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resource_Prospector_(rover)" class="mw-redirect" title="Resource Prospector (rover)">Resource Prospector</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/SELENE-2" title="SELENE-2">SELENE-2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ukrselena" class="mw-redirect" title="Ukrselena">Ukrselena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Masten_Space_Systems#XL-1" title="Masten Space Systems">XL-1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VIPER_(rover)" title="VIPER (rover)">VIPER</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;;width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colonization_of_the_Moon" title="Colonization of the Moon">Colonization of the Moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Google_Lunar_X_Prize" title="Google Lunar X Prize">Google Lunar X Prize</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_lunar_probes" title="List of lunar probes">List of lunar probes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon" title="List of missions to the Moon">List of missions to the Moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_artificial_objects_on_the_Moon" title="List of artificial objects on the Moon">List of artificial objects on the Moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_species_that_have_landed_on_the_Moon" title="List of species that have landed on the Moon">List of species that have landed on the Moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_resources" title="Lunar resources">Lunar resources</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fe,_Fi,_Fo,_Fum,_and_Phooey" title="Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey">Apollo 17 Moon mice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moon_landing_conspiracy_theories" title="Moon landing conspiracy theories">Moon landing conspiracy theories</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Third-party_evidence_for_Apollo_Moon_landings" title="Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings">Third-party evidence for Apollo Moon landings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_11_anniversaries" title="Apollo 11 anniversaries">Apollo 11 anniversaries</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_crewed_lunar_landers" title="List of crewed lunar landers">List of crewed lunar landers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="text-align: center; background:#DDDDDD;"><div> <ul><li>Missions are ordered by launch date. 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href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_471&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 471 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 471</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_1737&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 1737 (page does not exist)">OPS 1737</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_7719&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 7719 (page does not exist)">OPS 7719</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intelsat_IV_F-4" title="Intelsat IV F-4">Intelsat IV F-4</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosmos_472" title="Kosmos 472">Kosmos 472</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=HEOS-2&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="HEOS-2 (page does not exist)">HEOS-2</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_473&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 473 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 473</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna_20" title="Luna 20">Luna 20</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_474&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 474 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 474</a></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_1844&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 1844 (page does not exist)">OPS 1844</a></i></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_475&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 475 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 475</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_1570&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 1570 (page does not exist)">OPS 1570</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_476&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 476 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 476</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_10" title="Pioneer 10">Pioneer 10</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_477&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 477 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 477</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nauka-14KS_No.1&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nauka-14KS No.1 (page does not exist)">Nauka-14KS No.1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/TD-1A" title="TD-1A">TD-1A</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_478&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 478 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 478</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_1678&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 1678 (page does not exist)">OPS 1678</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_479&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 479 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 479</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_5058&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 5058 (page does not exist)">OPS 5058</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_480&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 480 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 480</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosmos_481" title="Kosmos 481">Kosmos 481</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venera_8" title="Venera 8">Venera 8</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meteor-MV_No.23&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Meteor-MV No.23 (page does not exist)">Meteor-MV No.23</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosmos_482" title="Kosmos 482">Kosmos 482</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_483&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 483 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 483</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Molniya-1_No.27&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Molniya-1 No.27 (page does not exist)">Molniya-1 No.27</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=SRET-1&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="SRET-1 (page does not exist)">SRET-1</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_484&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 484 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 484</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nauka-5KS_No.3&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nauka-5KS No.3 (page does not exist)">Nauka-5KS No.3</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Interkosmos_6&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Interkosmos 6 (page does not exist)">Interkosmos 6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosmos_485" title="Kosmos 485">Kosmos 485</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prognoz_1&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Prognoz 1 (page does not exist)">Prognoz 1</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_486&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 486 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 486</a></li> <li><u><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Apollo 16</a></u> (<a href="/wiki/PFS-2" class="mw-redirect" title="PFS-2">PFS-2</a>)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_5640&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 5640 (page does not exist)">OPS 5640</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosmos_487" title="Kosmos 487">Kosmos 487</a></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=DS-P1-Yu_No._51&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="DS-P1-Yu No. 51 (page does not exist)">DS-P1-Yu No. 51</a></i></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_488&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 488 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 488</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_489&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 489 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 489</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_490&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 490 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 490</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nauka-1KS_No.5&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nauka-1KS No.5 (page does not exist)">Nauka-1KS No.5</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Molniya-2-2&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Molniya-2-2 (page does not exist)">Molniya-2-2</a></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_6574&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 6574 (page does not exist)">OPS 6574</a></i></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_491&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 491 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 491</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_6371&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 6371 (page does not exist)">OPS 6371</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_492&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 492 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 492</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Intelsat_IV_F-5" title="Intelsat IV F-5">Intelsat IV F-5</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_493&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 493 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 493</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_494&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 494 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 494</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_495&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 495 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 495</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosmos_496" title="Kosmos 496">Kosmos 496</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Prognoz_2&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Prognoz 2 (page does not exist)">Prognoz 2</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Interkosmos_7&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Interkosmos 7 (page does not exist)">Interkosmos 7</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosmos_497" title="Kosmos 497">Kosmos 497</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meteor-MV_No.26&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Meteor-MV No.26 (page does not exist)">Meteor-MV No.26</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosmos_498" title="Kosmos 498">Kosmos 498</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_499&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 499 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 499</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_7293&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 7293 (page does not exist)">OPS 7293</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_7803&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 7803 (page does not exist)">OPS 7803</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_500&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 500 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 500</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosmos_501" title="Kosmos 501">Kosmos 501</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_502&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 502 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 502</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_503&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 503 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 503</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_504&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 504 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 504</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_505&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 505 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 505</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_506&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 506 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 506</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_507&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 507 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 507</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_508&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 508 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 508</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_509&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 509 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 509</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_510&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 510 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 510</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_511&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 511 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 511</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Landsat_1" title="Landsat 1">ERTS-1</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_512&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 512 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 512</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/DOS-2" title="DOS-2">DOS No.122</a></i></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_513&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 513 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 513</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Explorer_46" title="Explorer 46">Explorer 46</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_514&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 514 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 514</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_515&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 515 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 515</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denpa_(satellite)" title="Denpa (satellite)">Denpa</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Copernicus_(satellite)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Copernicus (satellite) (page does not exist)">Copernicus</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_516&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 516 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 516</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_517&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 517 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 517</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_8888&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 8888 (page does not exist)">OPS 8888</a></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=September_1972_Voskhod_launch_failure&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="September 1972 Voskhod launch failure (page does not exist)">Unnamed</a></i></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Triad_1&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Triad 1 (page does not exist)">Triad 1</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_518&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 518 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 518</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_519&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 519 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 519</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosmos_520" title="Kosmos 520">Kosmos 520</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Explorer_47" title="Explorer 47">Explorer 47</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosmos_521" title="Kosmos 521">Kosmos 521</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Molniya-2-3&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Molniya-2-3 (page does not exist)">Molniya-2-3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radcat_2" class="mw-redirect" title="Radcat 2">Radcat 2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radsat" title="Radsat">Radsat</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_522&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 522 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 522</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosmos_523" title="Kosmos 523">Kosmos 523</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_8314&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 8314 (page does not exist)">OPS 8314</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_8314/2&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 8314/2 (page does not exist)">OPS 8314/2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosmos_524" title="Kosmos 524">Kosmos 524</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Molniya-1_No.26&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Molniya-1 No.26 (page does not exist)">Molniya-1 No.26</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NOAA-2" title="NOAA-2">NOAA-2</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OSCAR-6&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OSCAR-6 (page does not exist)">OSCAR-6</a></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=October_1972_Kosmos-3M_launch_failure&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="October 1972 Kosmos-3M launch failure (page does not exist)">Unnamed</a></i></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_525&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 525 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 525</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nauka-16KS_No.1L&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Nauka-16KS No.1L (page does not exist)">Nauka-16KS No.1L</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kosmos_526" title="Kosmos 526">Kosmos 526</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Meteor-M_No.25&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Meteor-M No.25 (page does not exist)">Meteor-M No.25</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_527&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 527 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 527</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_528&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 528 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 528</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_529&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 529 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 529</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_530&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 530 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 530</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_531&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 531 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 531</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_532&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 532 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 532</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_533&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 533 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 533</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_534&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 534 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 534</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_535&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 535 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 535</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_536&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 536 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 536</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_7323&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 7323 (page does not exist)">OPS 7323</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anik_A1" class="mw-redirect" title="Anik A1">Anik A1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Explorer_48" class="mw-redirect" title="Explorer 48">Explorer 48</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=ESRO-4&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ESRO-4 (page does not exist)">ESRO-4</a></li> <li><i><a href="/w/index.php?title=N1_No.7L&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="N1 No.7L (page does not exist)">Unnamed</a></i></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_537&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 537 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 537</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Interkosmos_8&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Interkosmos 8 (page does not exist)">Interkosmos 8</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Molniya-1_No.28&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Molniya-1 No.28 (page does not exist)">Molniya-1 No.28</a></li> <li><u><a href="/wiki/Apollo_17" title="Apollo 17">Apollo 17</a></u></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nimbus_5" title="Nimbus 5">Nimbus 5</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Molniya-2-4&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Molniya-2-4 (page does not exist)">Molniya-2-4</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_538&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 538 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 538</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/AEROS_(satellite)" title="AEROS (satellite)">Aeros 1</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_9390&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 9390 (page does not exist)">OPS 9390</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_539&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 539 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 539</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=OPS_3978&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="OPS 3978 (page does not exist)">OPS 3978</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_540&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 540 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 540</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_541&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 541 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 541</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kosmos_542&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kosmos 542 (page does not exist)">Kosmos 542</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>Payloads are separated by bullets ( · ), launches by pipes ( | ). 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Lunokhod_programme" title="Lunokhod programme">Lunokhod</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lunokhod_programme#Lunokhod_201" title="Lunokhod programme">Lunokhod 0 (1A)</a><sup>†</sup> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunokhod_1" title="Lunokhod 1">Lunokhod 1</a> (1970–1971, on <a href="/wiki/Luna_17" title="Luna 17">Luna 17</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunokhod_2" title="Lunokhod 2">Lunokhod 2</a> (1973, on <a href="/wiki/Luna_21" title="Luna 21">Luna 21</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Apollo_program" title="Apollo program">Apollo</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle" title="Lunar Roving Vehicle">Lunar Roving Vehicle</a> (1971, <a href="/wiki/Apollo_15" title="Apollo 15">Apollo 15</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle" title="Lunar Roving Vehicle">LRV-2</a> (1972, <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Apollo 16</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Roving_Vehicle" title="Lunar Roving Vehicle">LRV-3</a> (1972, <a href="/wiki/Apollo_17" title="Apollo 17">Apollo 17</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Chinese_Lunar_Exploration_Program" title="Chinese Lunar Exploration Program">CLEP</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Yutu_(rover)" title="Yutu (rover)">Yutu</a></i> (2013–2016, on <a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_3" title="Chang'e 3">Chang'e 3</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_6" title="Chang'e 6"><i>Yidong Xiangji</i></a> (2024, on <a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_6" title="Chang'e 6">Chang'e 6</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Chandrayaan_programme" title="Chandrayaan programme">Chandrayaan</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Pragyan_(Chandrayaan-2)" title="Pragyan (Chandrayaan-2)">Pragyan</a></i><sup>†</sup> (2019, on <a href="/wiki/Chandrayaan-2" title="Chandrayaan-2">Chandrayaan-2</a>)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pragyan_(Chandrayaan-3)" title="Pragyan (Chandrayaan-3)">Pragyan</a></i> (2023, on <a href="/wiki/Chandrayaan-3" title="Chandrayaan-3">Chandrayaan-3</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Rashid_(lunar_rover)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rashid (lunar rover)">Rashid</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Rashid_(lunar_rover)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rashid (lunar rover)">Rashid</a></i><sup>†</sup> (2022–2023, on <a href="/wiki/Hakuto-R_Mission_1" title="Hakuto-R Mission 1">Hakuto-R Mission 1</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/Commercial_Lunar_Payload_Services" title="Commercial Lunar Payload Services">CLPS</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/CubeRover" title="CubeRover">Iris</a></i><sup>†</sup> (2024, on <a href="/wiki/Peregrine_Mission_One" title="Peregrine Mission One">Peregrine Mission One</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Colmena" title="Colmena">Colmena</a> × 5<sup>†</sup> (2024, on <a href="/wiki/Peregrine_Mission_One" title="Peregrine Mission One">Peregrine Mission One</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background:#DDDDDD;"><a href="/wiki/JAXA" title="JAXA">JAXA</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sora-Q" title="Sora-Q">Sora-Q</a><sup>†</sup> (2022–2023, on <a href="/wiki/Hakuto-R_Mission_1" title="Hakuto-R Mission 1">Hakuto-R Mission 1</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smart_Lander_for_Investigating_Moon#Lunar_Excursion_Vehicle_1" title="Smart Lander for Investigating Moon">LEV-1</a> (2024, on <a href="/wiki/Smart_Lander_for_Investigating_Moon" title="Smart Lander for Investigating Moon">SLIM</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Smart_Lander_for_Investigating_Moon#Lunar_Excursion_Vehicle_2" title="Smart Lander for Investigating Moon">LEV-2</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sora-Q" title="Sora-Q">Sora-Q</a>) (2024, on <a href="/wiki/Smart_Lander_for_Investigating_Moon" title="Smart Lander for Investigating Moon">SLIM</a>)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#DDDDDD;;width:1%">Planned</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/MoonRanger" class="mw-redirect" title="MoonRanger">MoonRanger</a> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chang%27e_7" title="Chang'e 7">Chang'e 7</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Rashid_(lunar_rover)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rashid (lunar rover)">Rashid 2</a></i>) (2026)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Terrain_Vehicle" title="Lunar Terrain Vehicle">Lunar Terrain Vehicle</a></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><i>TENACIOUS</i> (on <a href="/wiki/Hakuto-R_Mission_2" title="Hakuto-R Mission 2">Hakuto-R Mission 2</a>)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#DDDDDD;;width:1%">Proposed</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ATHLETE" title="ATHLETE">ATHLETE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/PTScientists" class="mw-redirect" title="PTScientists">Audi Lunar Quattro ×2 (PTScientists)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_Space_Systems" title="Deep Space Systems">Deep Space Systems</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OrbitBeyond#ECA_rover" title="OrbitBeyond">ECA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/HERACLES_(spacecraft)" title="HERACLES (spacecraft)">HERACLES</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Cruiser" title="Lunar Cruiser">Lunar Cruiser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luna-Glob" title="Luna-Glob">Luna-Grunt rover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Polar_Exploration_Mission" title="Lunar Polar Exploration Mission">LUPEX rover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moon_Diver_(spacecraft)" title="Moon Diver (spacecraft)">Moon Diver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moon_Express" title="Moon Express">Moon Express</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OrbitBeyond" title="OrbitBeyond">OrbitBeyond rover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astrobotic_Technology#Icebreaker_to_the_north_pole" title="Astrobotic Technology">Polaris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scarab_(rover)" title="Scarab (rover)">Scarab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_Exploration_Vehicle" title="Space Exploration Vehicle">Space Exploration Vehicle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Puli_Space_Technologies" title="Puli Space Technologies">Team Puli</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#DDDDDD;;width:1%">Cancelled</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lunokhod_programme#Lunokhod_3" title="Lunokhod programme">Lunokhod 3</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resource_Prospector_(rover)" class="mw-redirect" title="Resource Prospector (rover)">Resource Prospector</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VIPER_(rover)" title="VIPER (rover)">VIPER</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#DDDDDD;;width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Tank_on_the_Moon" title="Tank on the Moon">Tank on the Moon</a></i> (2007 documentary)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon" title="List of missions to the Moon">List of missions to the Moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_rover" title="Mars rover">Mars rover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rover_(space_exploration)" title="Rover (space exploration)">Rover (space exploration)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_extraterrestrial_rovers" class="mw-redirect" title="List of extraterrestrial rovers">List of extraterrestrial rovers</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background:#DDDDDD;"><div>Missions are ordered by launch date. Sign <sup>†</sup> indicates failure en route or before intended mission data returned.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="NASA" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="text-align: center;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:NASA_space_program" title="Template:NASA space program"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:NASA_space_program" title="Template talk:NASA space program"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:NASA_space_program" title="Special:EditPage/Template:NASA space program"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="NASA" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/NASA" title="NASA">NASA</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Space_policy_of_the_United_States" title="Space policy of the United States">Policy</a> and history</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">History<br />(<a href="/wiki/Creation_of_NASA" title="Creation of NASA">creation</a>)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Advisory_Committee_for_Aeronautics" title="National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics">NACA</a> (1915)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Aeronautics_and_Space_Act" title="National Aeronautics and Space Act">National Aeronautics and Space Act</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_Task_Group" title="Space Task Group">Space Task Group</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_O._Paine#National_Commission_on_Space" title="Thomas O. Paine">Paine</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report" title="Rogers Commission Report">Rogers</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ride_Report" title="Ride Report">Ride</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_Exploration_Initiative" title="Space Exploration Initiative">Space Exploration Initiative</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Augustine_Committee" title="Augustine Committee">Augustine</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_policy_of_the_United_States#Clinton_administration" title="Space policy of the United States">U.S. National Space Policy</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commission_on_the_Future_of_the_United_States_Aerospace_Industry" title="Commission on the Future of the United States Aerospace Industry">CFUSAI</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Accident_Investigation_Board" title="Columbia Accident Investigation Board">CAIB</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vision_for_Space_Exploration" title="Vision for Space Exploration">Vision for Space Exploration</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/President%27s_Commission_on_Implementation_of_United_States_Space_Exploration_Policy" title="President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy">Aldridge</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Review_of_United_States_Human_Space_Flight_Plans_Committee" title="Review of United States Human Space Flight Plans Committee">Augustine</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">General</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Space_Race" title="Space Race">Space Race</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_administrators_and_deputy_administrators_of_NASA" class="mw-redirect" title="List of administrators and deputy administrators of NASA">Administrator and Deputy Administrator</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASA_Chief_Scientist" title="NASA Chief Scientist">Chief Scientist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASA_Astronaut_Corps" title="NASA Astronaut Corps">Astronaut Corps</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Astronaut_ranks_and_positions" title="Astronaut ranks and positions">Ranks and positions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chief_of_the_Astronaut_Office" title="Chief of the Astronaut Office">Chief</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Budget_of_NASA" title="Budget of NASA">Budget</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASA_research" title="NASA research">NASA research</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NASA_spinoff_technologies" class="mw-redirect" title="NASA spinoff technologies">spinoff technologies</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASA%2B" title="NASA+">NASA+</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASA_TV" title="NASA TV">NASA TV</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASA_Social" title="NASA Social">NASA Social</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Launch_Services_Program" class="mw-redirect" title="Launch Services Program">Launch Services Program</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercury_Control_Center" title="Mercury Control Center">Mercury Control Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manned_Space_Flight_Network" title="Manned Space Flight Network">Manned Space Flight Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center" title="Kennedy Space Center">Kennedy Space Center</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vehicle_Assembly_Building" title="Vehicle Assembly Building">Vehicle Assembly Building</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center_Launch_Complex_39" title="Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39">Launch Complex 39</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kennedy_Space_Center_Launch_Complex_48" title="Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 48">Launch Complex 48</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Launch_Control_Center" title="Launch Control Center">Launch Control Center</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operations_and_Checkout_Building" title="Operations and Checkout Building">Operations and Checkout Building</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnson_Space_Center" title="Johnson Space Center">Johnson Space Center</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_C._Kraft_Jr._Mission_Control_Center" title="Christopher C. Kraft Jr. Mission Control Center">Mission Control</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Sample_Laboratory_Facility" title="Lunar Sample Laboratory Facility">Lunar Sample Laboratory</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Science_Mission_Directorate" title="Science Mission Directorate">Science Mission Directorate</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Human_spaceflight" title="Human spaceflight">Human spaceflight</a><br />programs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Past</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/North_American_X-15" title="North American X-15">X-15</a> (<a href="/wiki/Sub-orbital_spaceflight" title="Sub-orbital spaceflight">suborbital</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Mercury" title="Project Mercury">Mercury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Gemini" title="Project Gemini">Gemini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_program" title="Apollo program">Apollo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skylab" title="Skylab">Skylab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo%E2%80%93Soyuz" title="Apollo–Soyuz">Apollo–Soyuz</a> (with the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_space_program" title="Soviet space program">Soviet space program</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle_program" title="Space Shuttle program">Space Shuttle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shuttle%E2%80%93Mir_program" title="Shuttle–Mir program">Shuttle–<i>Mir</i></a> (with <a href="/wiki/Roscosmos" title="Roscosmos">Roscosmos State Corporation</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Constellation_program" title="Constellation program">Constellation</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/International_Space_Station_programme" title="International Space Station programme">International Space Station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commercial_Orbital_Transportation_Services" title="Commercial Orbital Transportation Services">Commercial Orbital Transportation Services</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commercial_Crew_Program" title="Commercial Crew Program">Commercial Crew</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orion_(spacecraft)" title="Orion (spacecraft)">Orion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artemis_program" title="Artemis program">Artemis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Gateway" title="Lunar Gateway">Lunar Gateway</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Robotic_spacecraft" class="mw-redirect" title="Robotic spacecraft">Robotic</a> programs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Past</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hitchhiker_Program" title="Hitchhiker Program">Hitchhiker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariner_program" title="Mariner program">Mariner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mariner_Mark_II" title="Mariner Mark II">Mariner Mark II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MESUR" title="MESUR">MESUR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_Surveyor_%2798" title="Mars Surveyor '98">Mars Surveyor '98</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Millennium_Program" title="New Millennium Program">New Millennium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Orbiter_program" title="Lunar Orbiter program">Lunar Orbiter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_program" title="Pioneer program">Pioneer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Planetary_Observer_program" title="Planetary Observer program">Planetary Observer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranger_program" title="Ranger program">Ranger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Surveyor_program" title="Surveyor program">Surveyor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Viking_program" title="Viking program">Viking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Project_Prometheus" title="Project Prometheus">Project Prometheus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Program" title="Mars Exploration Program">Mars Exploration</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover" title="Mars Exploration Rover">Mars Exploration Rover</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Current</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Living_With_a_Star" title="Living With a Star">Living With a Star</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Precursor_Robotic_Program" title="Lunar Precursor Robotic Program">Lunar Precursor Robotic Program</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earth_Observing_System" title="Earth Observing System">Earth Observing System</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Observatories_program" title="Great Observatories program">Great Observatories program</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Explorers_Program" title="Explorers Program">Explorers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voyager_program" title="Voyager program">Voyager</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Discovery_Program" title="Discovery Program">Discovery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/New_Frontiers_program" title="New Frontiers program">New Frontiers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solar_Terrestrial_Probes_program" title="Solar Terrestrial Probes program">Solar Terrestrial Probes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Commercial_Lunar_Payload_Services" title="Commercial Lunar Payload Services">Commercial Lunar Payload Services</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Small_Innovative_Missions_for_Planetary_Exploration" title="Small Innovative Missions for Planetary Exploration">SIMPLEx</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Individual featured<br /> <a href="/wiki/List_of_NASA_missions" title="List of NASA missions">missions</a><br />(human and robotic)</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Past</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_11" title="Apollo 11">Apollo 11</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cosmic_Background_Explorer" title="Cosmic Background Explorer">COBE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_3" title="Mercury-Redstone 3">Mercury 3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mercury-Atlas_6" title="Mercury-Atlas 6">Mercury-Atlas 6</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Magellan_(spacecraft)" title="Magellan (spacecraft)">Magellan</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_10" title="Pioneer 10">Pioneer 10</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_11" title="Pioneer 11">Pioneer 11</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Galileo_project" title="Galileo project"><i>Galileo</i></a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Galileo_(spacecraft)" title="Timeline of Galileo (spacecraft)">timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GALEX" title="GALEX">GALEX</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GRAIL" title="GRAIL">GRAIL</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilkinson_Microwave_Anisotropy_Probe" title="Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe">WMAP</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_Shuttle" title="Space Shuttle">Space Shuttle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spitzer_Space_Telescope" title="Spitzer Space Telescope">Spitzer Space Telescope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sojourner_(rover)" title="Sojourner (rover)"><i>Sojourner</i> rover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spirit_(rover)" title="Spirit (rover)"><i>Spirit</i> rover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LADEE" title="LADEE">LADEE</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/MESSENGER" title="MESSENGER">MESSENGER</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aquarius_(SAC-D_instrument)" title="Aquarius (SAC-D instrument)">Aquarius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassini%E2%80%93Huygens" title="Cassini–Huygens"><i>Cassini</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dawn_(spacecraft)" title="Dawn (spacecraft)"><i>Dawn</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kepler_space_telescope" title="Kepler space telescope">Kepler space telescope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opportunity_(rover)" title="Opportunity (rover)"><i>Opportunity</i> rover</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Opportunity" title="Timeline of Opportunity">timeline</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_surface_features_of_Mars_visited_by_Spirit_and_Opportunity" title="List of surface features of Mars visited by Spirit and Opportunity">observed</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ramaty_High_Energy_Solar_Spectroscopic_Imager" class="mw-redirect" title="Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager">RHESSI</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/InSight" title="InSight">InSight</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ingenuity_(helicopter)" title="Ingenuity (helicopter)"><i>Ingenuity</i> helicopter</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Ingenuity_flights" title="List of Ingenuity flights">flights</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Currently<br />operating</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter" title="Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter">Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/2001_Mars_Odyssey" title="2001 Mars Odyssey">2001 Mars Odyssey</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/New_Horizons" title="New Horizons">New Horizons</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Space_Station" title="International Space Station">International Space Station</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope" title="Hubble Space Telescope">Hubble Space Telescope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Gehrels_Swift_Observatory" title="Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory"><i>Swift</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/THEMIS" title="THEMIS">THEMIS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_Exploration_Rover" title="Mars Exploration Rover">Mars Exploration Rover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curiosity_(rover)" title="Curiosity (rover)"><i>Curiosity</i> rover</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Mars_Science_Laboratory" title="Timeline of Mars Science Laboratory">timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GOES_14" title="GOES 14">GOES 14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_Reconnaissance_Orbiter" title="Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter">Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/GOES_15" title="GOES 15">GOES 15</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Van_Allen_Probes" title="Van Allen Probes">Van Allen Probes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solar_Dynamics_Observatory" title="Solar Dynamics Observatory">Solar Dynamics Observatory</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juno_(spacecraft)" title="Juno (spacecraft)"><i>Juno</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_Science_Laboratory" title="Mars Science Laboratory">Mars Science Laboratory</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Mars_Science_Laboratory" title="Timeline of Mars Science Laboratory">timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NuSTAR" title="NuSTAR">NuSTAR</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Voyager_1" title="Voyager 1">Voyager 1</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Voyager_2" title="Voyager 2">Voyager 2</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wide-field_Infrared_Survey_Explorer" title="Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer">WISE</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/MAVEN" title="MAVEN">MAVEN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magnetospheric_Multiscale_Mission" title="Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission">MMS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/OSIRIS-REx" title="OSIRIS-REx">OSIRIS-REx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transiting_Exoplanet_Survey_Satellite" title="Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite">Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mars_2020" title="Mars 2020">Mars 2020</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Perseverance_(rover)" title="Perseverance (rover)"><i>Perseverance</i> rover</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_Mars_2020" title="Timeline of Mars 2020">timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope" title="James Webb Space Telescope">James Webb Space Telescope</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_James_Webb_Space_Telescope" title="Timeline of the James Webb Space Telescope">timeline</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Plankton,_Aerosol,_Cloud,_ocean_Ecosystem" title="Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem">PACE</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Europa_Clipper" title="Europa Clipper">Europa Clipper</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: center;">Future</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NISAR_(satellite)" title="NISAR (satellite)">NISAR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Grace_Roman_Space_Telescope" title="Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope">Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DAVINCI" title="DAVINCI">DAVINCI</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/VERITAS_(spacecraft)" title="VERITAS (spacecraft)">VERITAS</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Space_Communications_and_Navigation_Program" title="Space Communications and Navigation Program">Communications<br />and navigation</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Near_Earth_Network" title="Near Earth Network">Near Earth Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_Network" title="Space Network">Space Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASA_Deep_Space_Network" title="NASA Deep Space Network">Deep Space Network</a> (<a href="/wiki/Goldstone_Deep_Space_Communications_Complex" title="Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex">Goldstone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madrid_Deep_Space_Communications_Complex" title="Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex">Madrid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canberra_Deep_Space_Communication_Complex" title="Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex">Canberra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_Flight_Operations_Facility" title="Space Flight Operations Facility">Space Flight Operations Facility</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deep_Space_Atomic_Clock" title="Deep Space Atomic Clock">Deep Space Atomic Clock</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">NASA lists</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Astronaut" title="Astronaut">Astronauts</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_astronauts_by_name" title="List of astronauts by name">by name</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_astronauts_by_year_of_selection" title="List of astronauts by year of selection">by year</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Gemini_astronauts" title="List of Gemini astronauts">Gemini astronauts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts" title="List of Apollo astronauts">Apollo astronauts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Space_Shuttle_crews" title="List of Space Shuttle crews">Space Shuttle crews</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NASA_aircraft" title="List of NASA aircraft">NASA aircraft</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NASA_missions" title="List of NASA missions">NASA missions</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_uncrewed_NASA_missions" title="List of uncrewed NASA missions">uncrewed missions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Apollo_missions" title="List of Apollo missions">Apollo missions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Space_Shuttle_missions" title="List of Space Shuttle missions">Space Shuttle missions</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_rockets_of_the_United_States" title="List of rockets of the United States">United States rockets</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NASA_cancellations" title="List of NASA cancellations">NASA cancellations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NASA_cameras_on_spacecraft" title="List of NASA cameras on spacecraft">NASA cameras on spacecraft</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">NASA images<br />and artwork</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Earthrise" title="Earthrise">Earthrise</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Blue_Marble" title="The Blue Marble">The Blue Marble</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Family_Portrait_(Voyager)" title="Family Portrait (Voyager)">Family Portrait</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot" title="Pale Blue Dot">Pale Blue Dot</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation" title="Pillars of Creation">Pillars of Creation</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mystic_Mountain" title="Mystic Mountain">Mystic Mountain</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Family_Portrait_(MESSENGER)" title="Family Portrait (MESSENGER)"><i>Solar System Family Portrait</i></a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Smiled" title="The Day the Earth Smiled">The Day the Earth Smiled</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Fallen_Astronaut" title="Fallen Astronaut">Fallen Astronaut</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_deep_fields" title="List of deep fields">Deep fields</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_plaque" title="Lunar plaque">Lunar plaques</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pioneer_plaque" title="Pioneer plaque">Pioneer plaques</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record" title="Voyager Golden Record">Voyager Golden Record</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_11_goodwill_messages" title="Apollo 11 goodwill messages">Apollo 11 goodwill messages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASA_insignia" title="NASA insignia">NASA insignia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASA_space-flown_Gemini_and_Apollo_medallions" title="NASA space-flown Gemini and Apollo medallions">Gemini and Apollo medallions</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mission_patch" title="Mission patch">Mission patches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Hubble_Space_Telescope_anniversary_images" title="List of Hubble Space Telescope anniversary images">Hubble Space Telescope anniversary images</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="text-align: center;;width:1%">Related</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon" title="We choose to go to the Moon">We choose to go to the Moon</a>"</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_8_Genesis_reading" title="Apollo 8 Genesis reading">Apollo 8 Genesis reading</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apollo_15_postal_covers_incident" title="Apollo 15 postal covers incident">Apollo 15 postal covers incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Space_Mirror_Memorial" title="Space Mirror Memorial">Space Mirror Memorial</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Astronaut_Monument" title="The Astronaut Monument">The Astronaut Monument</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lunar_sample_displays" title="Lunar sample displays">Lunar sample displays</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Moon_rock" title="Moon rock">Moon rocks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stolen_and_missing_Moon_rocks" title="Stolen and missing Moon rocks">stolen or missing</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/United_States_Astronaut_Hall_of_Fame" title="United States Astronaut Hall of Fame">U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._space_exploration_history_on_U.S._stamps" title="U.S. space exploration history on U.S. stamps">Space program on U.S. stamps</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fe,_Fi,_Fo,_Fum,_and_Phooey" title="Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, and Phooey">Apollo 17 Moon mice</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moon_tree" title="Moon tree">Moon tree</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space#United_States" title="Monkeys and apes in space">Other primates in space</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NASA_International_Space_Apps_Challenge" title="NASA International Space Apps 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