The pictures, created by “Apollo Remastered” author Andy Saunders, 公演 NASALunar Module “Orion” パイロット Charles Duketaking in the view across the hilly Descartes Highlands, the Command and Service Module “Casper” above the lunar horizon, Commander John Young’s “giant leap,” the lunar rover and a photo of Duke and his family on the moon’s surface.
The second of the three“J-missions,”Apollo 16’sprimary objectiveswere to inspect, survey and sample materials and surface features at the highlands region of the moon’s southeast quadrant, to position and activate surface experiments and to conduct in-flight experiments and photographic tasks from lunar orbit.
The astronauts lifted off aboard the Saturn-V SA-511ロケット で 12:54 午後. は 四月に 16, 1972, from Launch Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Lunar Module carrying Young and Duke touched down at Descartes – albeit nearly six hours late – at 9:24 午後. EST on April 20, 約 276 meters northwest of theplanned point.