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...Well, Orion is finally here, Houston. Fahn-taah-stick...
...miles of space last week, all the world breathed a sigh of relief. After a nerve-racking delay of nearly six hours, during which NASA officials came close to calling off Apollo 16's lunar landing, Astronauts Duke and John Young had brought the landing craft Orion to a nearly perfect touchdown only 200 yards off target in the moon's mountain-ringed Descartes region. It was man's fifth successful landing on the lunar surface, and the first in the highlands, the moon's oldest and most rugged terrain...
...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 these explorations even more scientifically interesting is their site: the lunar highlands, considered the moon's oldest and most rugged terrain...
...lunar module, and then take off on a brief spin, ranging as far west as two small craters that they have named Spook and Flag. Young will put the rover through a driving test that includes "Grand Prix maneuvers" to determine the capabilities of the vehicle before returning to Orion to end the first seven-hour...
...second and longer moon ride will begin Friday, April 21, at 5:44 p.m., E.S.T. Heading south, the astronauts will travel up to 21 miles from Orion -as far as they could walk if the rover broke down. Again, they will frequently stop along their winding path to pick up geological samples. Finally, after reaching the bottom slopes of 1,600-ft. Stone Mountain, they will return to Orion for the night...