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Some of the questions may be resolved by the flight of Apollo 16, scheduled to lift off from Cape Kennedy on Sunday, April 16. The spacecraft will carry Mattingly and his two crewmates, John Young and Charles Duke, on the fifth-and next to last-scheduled U.S. expedition to the moon. It may also be the most exciting. While Mattingly performs experiments in lunar orbit Aboard the command ship Casper.* Young and Duke will descend in the lunar module Orion (after the constellation), explore the surface for 21 hours and collect a record 195 Ibs. of rocks. What will make...
...will take place on an undulating mountain-ringed plain near the large crater Descartes (named in honor of the 17th century French philosopher and mathematician). The region is farther south of the lunar equator and at a higher elevation than any earlier landing site (about 8,000 ft. above Apollo 11 's Tranquility Base, 150 miles to the northeast). Far more significant is the geological diversity of the landing area. It may contain three basically different types of material: 1) original crustal rock dating back to the moon's birth some 4.6 billion years ago; 2) a layer...
...Like the Apollo 15 astronauts who toured the mountainous terrain near Hadley Rille last summer. Young and Duke will have the services of a lunar rover equipped with an earth-controlled color-TV camera. The rover's seat belts have been redesigned to anchor passengers more comfortably during the jouncing ride in the moon's weak gravity. The electric drilling equipment that caused Apollo 15 Astronaut Dave Scott to grunt and curse as he tried to cut into the lunar soil has been modified. Other improvements include: new foods (ham steak, fruit desserts), special drugs and liquids...
Unfolding Rover. Young and Duke are scheduled to begin their first EVA (extravehicular activity) on Thursday, April 20, at 7:19 p.m., E.S.T., some 31 hours after their landing on the moon. They are so confident of Apollo's systems that they will not bother to collect the familiar "contingency sample"-a few specimens of lunar rock quickly gathered by previous Apollo crews immediately upon emerging from the lunar module in event their mission had to be abruptly curtailed. Instead, Young and Duke will use the precious time to set up their equipment and experiments, unfold their car from...
LIKE all the other astronauts who have made the long trip to the moon, Apollo 16's crew members have one ability in common: they are highly competent jet pilots. Yet in temperament, personal interests and space-flight experience, they are as different as lunar night...