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| Apollo 16 insurance cover featuring a cachet of the Apollo 16 mission insignia and two sets of astronaut wings, with an April 16, 1972, postmark from Kennedy Space Center. It is signed in blue felt tip by John Young, Charlie Duke, and Ken Mattingly. The reverse includes a printed certification that states, "Originally Apollo 16 Insurance Cover Pre-launch signed on the obverse from my personal collection." and is signed by John Young. - RRAuction | |
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| Photo: John Young, the commander of the Apollo 16 mission. |
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| Photo: Apollo 16 astronauts John W. Young, Thomas K. Mattingly, and Charles M. Duke at a press conference on March 17, 1972. |
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| Apollo 16 official NASA cachet on a cover with a hand cancellation from Kennedy Space Center dated April 16, 1972. |
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| Photo: Apollo 16 lunar module pilot Charles M. Duke Jr. shows his family the Apollo spacecraft that will take him, astronaut John W. Young, and Thomas K. Mattingly II to the Moon on April 16. The Dukes visited the spacecraft's white room at Complex 39. Kneeling beside Duke are his sons Thomas, 4, and Charles, 6, along with Dorothy and Guenter Wendt, North American Aviation pad leader. |
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| Photo: The Apollo 16 astronauts during their final test before the scheduled liftoff to the Moon. |
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| Apollo 16 KSC mailer's postmark permit canceled on launch day, April 16, 1972. |
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| Photo: The Apollo 16 rocket lifted off from the launch pad at Cape Kennedy on April 16, 1972. |
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| Photo: Stars near the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, photographed by John Young. |
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| Photo: Charlie Duke on the moon. |
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| Apollo 16 cover from Manned Spaceflight Covers, canceled in Houston on the day of the moon landing, April 20, 1972. Signed by Charlie Duke. |
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| Photo: Charlie Duke captured this image on the Moon, from the spot where he left a shrink-wrapped photo of his family. |
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| At the beginning of the first EVA, John Young and Charlie Duke deployed both the lunar rover and a series of experiments, including passive and active seismometers, a heat flow experiment, a cosmic ray detector, and a solar wind composition experiment. They also set up the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph near the LM, a small telescope used to observe selected astronomical targets. The crew then drove the rover west of the landing site, collecting samples from the Cayley Formation at Flag Crater and Spook Crater while taking measurements with a portable magnetometer to assess variations in the Moon’s magnetic field around the landing area. By the end of EVA 1, the crew’s descriptions of the collected samples indicated that there was little to no volcanic material at the Apollo 16 landing site. |
| Video: Charlie Duke took his family to the Moon. |
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| During the second EVA, Young and Duke drove south of the landing site, making several stops along the lower slope of Stone Mountain and reaching a maximum elevation of 160 meters above the mountain's base. On their return to the LM, they made several additional stops in an ejecta ray from South Ray Crater, a 2-million-year-old, 680-meter diameter crater located approximately 4 km away. These stops were strategically planned to ensure that material from South Ray Crater was included in their sample collection. |
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| Due to the delayed landing, the third EVA was reduced to 5 hours and 40 minutes. Young and Duke drove north of the landing site to the southeastern rim of North Ray Crater. Many of the pre-planned sampling stops were omitted, allowing the crew to spend two hours working on the rim of North Ray Crater. This crater, which is 1 km wide and 230 meters deep, serves as a natural drill hole, ejecting material from deep beneath the lunar surface in the form of boulders located along and outside the crater rim for the astronauts to sample. The largest boulder, nicknamed House Rock, measures 20 meters long and 12 meters high, likely consisting of material ejected from 200 meters below the surface. |
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| Photo: John Young examining a large boulder during the third EVA on April 23, 1972. |
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| Charlie Duke and John Young lifted off from the Moon on April 23, 1972. | |
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| The Apollo 16 capsule splashed down on April 27, 1972. | |
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| Postcard from the USS Ticonderoga CSV-14 recovery ship featuring a Beck rubber-stamped cachet, hand canceled on April 27, 1972. | |
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| Apollo 16 Captain's cover with a hand cancellation from the USS Ticonderoga, dated April 27, 1972. |
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| Photo: The Apollo 16 crew being greeted by Captain Edward Boyd on the USS Ticonderoga aircraft carrier, April 27, 1972. |
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| Apollo 16 primary recovery ship cover featuring a rare USS Ticonderoga machine cancel, postmarked on board the ship on April 27, 1972. |
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| Apollo 16 recovery cover flown by helicopter featuring the rare USS Ticonderoga machine cancel, dated April 27, 1972. |
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| Apollo 16 cover from the USS Ticonderoga recovery ship featuring a Beck rubber-stamped cachet. The top cover is signed by Captain Edward Ayes Boyd, while the bottom cover is signed by the recovery crew. The USS Ticonderoga hand cancellation, dated April 27, 1972, was postmarked onshore. |
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| Apollo 16 cover from the USS Ticonderoga recovery ship featuring a painted cachet by Robert McCall on the back. |
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| The Apollo 16 crew enjoying a good laugh at a post-flight press conference on May 3, 1972, as they look at the oranges that the newsmen placed on the table. |
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| Photo: Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke shows a photograph of himself on the Moon alongside a scale model of Apollo 16. Duke is celebrating the 20th anniversary of his moonwalk. |
