Jason Kendall's Intro to Astronomy Course
Adjunct faculty in Physics at William Paterson University
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The Apollo Missions to the Moon
Apollo 16
Apollo 16 was the tenth crewed mission in the United States Apollo space program, the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon, and the second to land in the lunar highlands.
Launch date: April 16, 1972
Mission duration: 11 days, 1 hour, 51 minutes, 5 seconds
EVAs: 1 in cislunar space to retrieve film cassettes
Astronauts: John Young, Ken Mattingly, Charles Duke