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| Apollo 16 insurance cover with a cachet of the Apollo 16 mission insignia, and two sets of astronaut wings, bearing an April 16, 1972, Kennedy Space Center postmark, signed in blue felt tip by John Young, Charlie Duke, and Ken Mattingly. Reverse bears a printed certification which reads, "Originally Apollo 16 Insurance Cover Pre-launch signed on the obverse from my personal collection." and 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 press conference on March 17, 1972. |
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| Apollo 16 official NASA cachet on cover with a Kennedy Space Center hand cancel dated April 16, 1972. |
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| Photo: "ASTRONAUT FAMILY -- Apollo 16 lunar module pilot, Charles M. Duke, Jr, shows his family the Apollo spacecraft that will transport him and astronaut John W. Young and Thomas K. Mattingly II to the Moon April 16. The Dukes visited the spacecraft white room at Complex 39. Kneeling with Duke are sons Thomas, 4, Charles 6, Dorothy and Guenter Wendt, North American Aviation pad leader. NASA Photo." |
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| Photo: The Apollo 16 astronauts in their final test before their scheduled liftoff for the moon. |
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| Apollo 16 KSC mailer's postmark permit cancelled on launch day, April 16, 1972. |
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| Photo: 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, cancelled at Houston on moon landing day April 20, 1972. Signed by Charlie Duke. |
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| Photo: Charlie Duke took this photo on the moon from where he left behind a shrink-wrapped picture of his family. |
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| At the start of the first EVA, John Young and Charlie Duke deployed both the lunar rover and a set of experiments, including passive and active seismometers, a heat flow experiment, a cosmic ray detector, a solar wind composition experiment, set up the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph near the LM, a small telescope that was used to make observations of selected astronomical targets. The crew then drove the rover west of the landing site, collecting Cayley Formation samples at Flag Crater and Spook Crater and making measurements with a portable magnetometer to determine how the Moon’s magnetic field varied with location around the landing site. By the end of EVA 1, crew descriptions of the collected samples had already made it clear that there was little or no volcanic material at the Apollo 16 landing site. |
| Video: Charlie Duke brings family to the Moon. |
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| During the second EVA, Young and Duke drove south of the landing site, making several stops on the lower slope of Stone Mountain and reaching a maximum height of 160 meters above the base of the mountain. Several additional stops on the return to the LM were made in an ejecta ray from South Ray Crater, a 2-million-year-old, 680-meter diameter crater about 4 km away. These stops were planned to ensure that material from South Ray Crater was included in the sample collection. |
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| Because of the delayed landing, the third EVA was shortened to 5 hours and 40 minutes. Young and Duke drove north of the landing site to the southeastern rim of North Ray Crater. Most of the pre-planned sampling stops were eliminated, allowing the crew to spend two hours working on the rim of North Ray Crater. The crater is 1 km across and 230 meters deep, acting as a natural drill hole and ejecting material from deep below the lunar surface in boulders that are now located along and outside the crater rim for sampling by the astronauts. The largest boulder, nicknamed House Rock, is 20 meters long and 12 meters high and likely represents material that was ejected from 200 meters below the surface. |
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| Photo: John Young inspecting a large boulder during the third EVA on April 23, 1972. |
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| Charlie Duke and John Young lift-off from the moon on April 23, 1972. | |
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| USS Ticonderoga CSV-14 recovery ship postcard with Beck rubber stamped cachet, hand cancelled on April 27, 1972. | |
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| Apollo 16 Captain's cover with hand cancel USS Ticonderoga, April 27, 1972. |
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| Photo: Apollo 16 crew greeted by Captain Edward Boyd on the USS Ticonderoga aircraft carrier, April 27, 1972. |
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| Apollo 16 primary recovery ship cover with rare USS Ticonderoga machine cancel, April 27, 1972, postmarked on board the ship. |
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| Apollo 16 recovery cover flown via helicopter with the rare USS Ticonderoga machine cancel, April 27, 1972. |
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| Apollo 16 USS Ticonderoga recovery ship cover with Beck rubber stamped cachet. Top cover signed by Captain Edward Ayes Boyd, bottom cover signed by recovery crew. The USS Ticonderoga hand cancel, April 27, 1972, was postmarked onshore. |
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| Apollo 16 USS Ticonderoga recovery ship cover with a painted cachet by Robert McCall at the back of the cover. |
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| Photo: Apollo 16 crew at a post-flight press conference on May 3, 1972, having a good laugh while looking at the oranges placed on the table by the newsmen. |
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| Photo: "Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke displays a photograph taken of him on the moon along with a scale model Apollo 16. Duke is celebrating his 20th anniversary of the moon walk. Photo by Kevin Geil. Insight March 19, 1992." |
