Apollo 16

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50 Years Ago: Apollo 16 Rolls to the Launch Pad
Dec 16, 2021

(...) On Dec. 1, Mattingly practiced for his deep-space spacewalk in the Water Immersion Facility (WIF) at MSC’s Mission Training and Simulation Facility (Building 5). Wearing a pressure suit, Mattingly rehearsed retrieving film canisters using a mockup of the Command and Service Module and the SIM bay placed in the water tank. Roosa repeated the activity in the WIF on Jan. 7, 1972. (...)
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-apollo-16-rolls-to-the-launch-pad

[Radek68]

Dokładnie 50 lat temu, 16 kwietnia 1972 o godzinie 17:54 GMT Apollo 16 rozpoczął podróż na Księżyc. Rakieta Saturn V działała prawidłowo i wyniosła astronautów na orbitę okołoziemską.
Pięć dni później trzyosobowa załoga astronautów astronauci byli już na powierzchni Księżyca, gdzie zebrali blisko 100 kg próbek do badań laboratoryjnych. Na Srebrnym Globie spędzili ponad 20 godzin, a LRV łącznie przejechał 26,55 km i oddalił się od lądownika księżycowego na maksymalną odległość 4,5 km.



Warto zerknąć na przygotowaną specjalnie przez NASA prezentację:

https://moon.nasa.gov/system/downloadable_items/557_Apollo16.pptx

[mss]

Dokładnie 50 lat temu, 16 kwietnia 1972 o godzinie 17:54 GMT Apollo 16 rozpoczął podróż na Księżyc. Rakieta Saturn V działała prawidłowo i wyniosła astronautów na orbitę okołoziemską.

Warto zerknąć na przygotowaną specjalnie przez NASA prezentację:

https://moon.nasa.gov/system/downloadable_items/557_Apollo16.pptx

Prezentacja super!

Dodatkowo warto podać link do pełnej informacji o starcie Apollo-16 50 lat temu.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-apollo-16-launches-to-the-moon

Pięć dni później trzyosobowa załoga astronautów była już na powierzchni Księżyca, gdzie zebrała blisko 100 kg próbek do badań laboratoryjnych. {...}

Warto zwzrócić uwagę, że Young i Duke wylądowali w lądowniku Orion a Mattyngly w statku Casper orbitował wokół Księżyca jak dwójka prowadziła badania na Księżycu.

[Orionid]

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Warto zwzrócić uwagę, że Young i Duke wylądowali w lądowniku Orion a Mattyngly w statku Casper orbitował wokół Księżyca jak dwójka prowadziła badania na Księżycu.

A ta dwójka astronautów , jako jedyna z lotów księżycowych, jeszcze wahadłowcami wróciła na LEO.
A to chyba nie był świąteczny posiłek 
https://twitter.com/apollo_50th/status/1515321619404582918

Nałożenie wizualizacji z Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter na historyczne wydarzenia z Apollo 16


Into the Lunar Mountains: Remembering Apollo 16, 50 Years On
by Ben Evans April 15, 2022


For more than four hours, Orion and Casper flew in formation as Mission Control weighed the mission’s options. Photo Credit: NASA

It was hoped that this highland location would yield volcanic rocks and offer tantalizing insights into billions of years of the Moon’s evolution. So convinced were many in the geological community that Apollo 16 would find volcanic rocks at Descartes that most of the astronauts’ training was in volcanic regions on Earth.

The crew had an unlucky pedigree. Charlie Duke was the backup LMP for Apollo 13, but his infamous exposure to German measles led to a last-minute decision to ground Ken Mattingly from his spot as prime CMP on that crew. Mattingly was replaced by his own backup, Jack Swigert, and in March 1971 Young—as Apollo 13’s backup Commander—was assigned with the unfortunate duo to take Apollo 16 to the Moon. This led to a spot of banter on launch morning, 16 April 1972, particularly since the Apollo 16 backup Commander was Apollo 13 veteran Fred Haise.

https://www.americaspace.com/2022/04/16/into-the-lunar-mountains-remembering-apollo-16-50-years-on/

[Radek68]

Mattyngly w statku Casper orbitował wokół Księżyca jak dwójka prowadziła badania na Księżycu.

Mój lapsus, oczywiście że w LM-11 „Orion” było dwóch astronautów z trójki lecącej w misji Apollo 16.

[juram]

Ciekawe materiały z LROC:   

http://www.lroc.asu.edu/posts/1252

[Orionid]

Rocznicowe wspomnienia jedynego żyjącego uczestnika księżycowych spacerów z przedostatniego załogowego lądowania na Księżycu.

Apollo 16 astronaut looks to the future of space


50 years on, Apollo 16 moonwalker still 'excited' by space
Associated Press Apr 29, 2022


Retired NASA astronaut Charlie Duke speaks to a group of middle school students at the South Carolina State Museum. (Photo: AP)

Duke, 86, is one of four surviving moonwalkers from the Apollo program, taking Apollo 16 to the lunar surface in 1972. He has been making the rounds to mark the 50th anniversary of his voyage, recently taking a trip to the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to visit his spaceship, which made the next-to-the-last U.S. mission to land on the moon.

The late John Young was first out of the lander and walked on the moon with Duke. Ken Mattingly orbited the moon in the command module, nicknamed “Casper.” (...)

On Friday, Duke visited the South Carolina State Museum in Columbia, which houses an exhibit full of some of his mementos from the moon, including a space suit, check list and moon rock. A series of placards describe the voyage and also include a flight drawing Duke made as a child on some of his arithmetic work.

https://themercury.com/ap/national/50-years-on-apollo-16-moonwalker-still-excited-by-space/article_c1527ef0-540a-5f2a-be15-653e4993ebfe.html
https://www.indiatoday.in/science/story/50-years-on-apollo-16-moonwalker-still-excited-by-space-1944376-2022-05-02

EDIT 20.02.23
https://twitter.com/Astromaterials/status/1624887557958819846
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/samples/atlas/lab_view/?mission=Apollo%2016&sample=61016&side=t
https://twitter.com/AndySaunders_1/status/1512019855960068096

EDIT 16/22.04.23
16.04.1972 o 17:54:00,569  z wyrzutni LC-39A na Cape Canaveral wystartowała RN Saturn V, która wyniosła ku Księżycowi załogowy statek kosmiczny Apollo 16 (CSM:Casper i LM:Orion).
27.04.1972 o 19:45:05, kapsuła powrotna Apollo 16 wodowała na Oceanie Spokojnym.

1972 April 16 - . 17:54 GMT - . Launch Site: Cape Canaveral. Launch Complex: Cape Canaveral LC39A. Launch Platform: LUT3. Launch Vehicle: Saturn V.

Apollo 16 - . Call Sign: Caspar. Crew: Duke, Mattingly, Young. Backup Crew: Haise, Mitchell, Roosa. Payload: Apollo CSM 113/LM 11/ ALSEP/ LRV-2/PFS 2/S-IVB-511. Mass: 30,358 kg (66,927 lb). Nation: USA. Related Persons: Duke, Haise, Mattingly, Mitchell, Roosa, Young. Agency: NASA Houston. Program: Apollo. Class: Moon. Type: Manned lunar spacecraft. Flight: Apollo 16. Spacecraft: Apollo CSM. Duration: 11.08 days. Decay Date: 1972-04-27 . USAF Sat Cat: 6000 . COSPAR: 1972-031A. Apogee: 169 km (105 mi). Perigee: 167 km (103 mi). Inclination: 32.54 deg. Period: 88.93 min.

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[Orionid]

51 lat temu, 27.04.1972 o 19:45:05 UTC, załoga powróciła na Ziemię.
Lot trwał 11d 01h 51m 04s.

Kod: [Zaznacz]

https://twitter.com/spacemen1969/status/165146746152128921750 Years Ago: Apollo 16 Splashes Down
Apr 29, 2022

On April 27, 1972, Apollo 16 astronauts John W. Young, Thomas K. “Ken” Mattingly, and Charles M. Duke successfully ended their 11-day Moon landing mission with a splashdown in their Command Module (CM) Casper in the Pacific Ocean. Recovery teams from the U.S.S. Ticonderoga (CVS-14) monitored the descent and landing and retrieved the astronauts and their spacecraft. Officials from NASA and the U.S. Navy greeted the astronauts as they stepped off the recovery helicopter. President Richard M. Nixon telephoned to congratulate them on their successful mission. They spent their first night on Earth aboard Ticonderoga before beginning the journey home to Houston. Workers removed toxic materials from Casper to make it safe for transport back to its manufacturer for postflight inspections (...)


Two views of Apollo 16 astronauts Charles M. Duke, left, John W. Young, and Thomas K. “Ken” Mattingly aboard the recovery raft, awaiting pickup by the recovery helicopter.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-apollo-16-splashes-down
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1651730445560868864
https://twitter.com/airandspace/status/1652412460710735873
https://twitter.com/apollo_50th/status/1519427810154188808
https://twitter.com/apollo_50th/status/1519413455496916993

[Orionid]

Charlie Duke ponownie w Paryżu na AirShow
https://www.forum.kosmonauta.net/index.php?topic=839.msg185094#msg185094

Apollo 16 Lunar Module Pilot Charlie Duke Returns To Paris Air Show 2023
By Armada International -April 19, 2023

A much-anticipated highlight of the 54th Paris Air Show this summer will be the return of Apollo 16 Lunar Module Pilot, Brigadier General Charlie Duke, USAF (Ret), as a goodwill ambassador of the USA Partnership Pavilion and the Astronaut Al Worden Endeavour Scholarship.

Duke will be joined by former French Astronaut-Cosmonaut Général de Brigade Jean-Loup Chretien, Armée de l’Air (Ret); former NASA astronaut, Col. Michael J. Bloomfield, USAF (Ret); and Endeavour program founder, USA Partnership Pavilion organizer Tom Kallman, to announce the host country’s first scholarship recipients of a week-long, hands-on astronaut training experience at Space Camp in Huntsville, AL later this summer.

https://www.armadainternational.com/2023/04/apollo-16-lunar-module-pilot-charlie-duke-returns-to-paris-air-show-2023/
https://www.aero-mag.com/apollo-16-pilot-charlie-duke-returns-to-paris-airs-show-as-endeavour-scholarship-ambassador
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https://www.space.com/memorial-day-parade-apollo-astronaut-legends-2023