Engineers Checking Deployment of Apollo 16's Lunar Rover

Engineers Checking Deployment of Apollo 16's Lunar Rover

Apollo 16's Lunar Rover

John F. Kennedy Space Center

Kennedy Space Center

Merritt Island (Fla.)

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (U.S.)

NASA

Apollo Project (U.S.)

Project Apollo (U.S.)

Apollo 16 (Spacecraft)

Engineers checking the deployment of the Lunar Rover for Apollo 16 (AS-511) at John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Merritt Island, Florida. Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission of Project Apollo, the fifth mission to land men on the Moon, and the first to land in the lunar highlands. The mission was crewed by Mission Commander John Young (1930-) (1930-), Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke (1935-), and Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly (1936-), and launched from KSC on April 16, 1972. Young and Duke spent nearly three days on the lunar surface conducting three extravehicular activities (EVA), also known as moonwalks. The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) used was the second time one had been used during a lunar landing mission. The Apollo 16 landed back on Earth in the South Pacific Ocean on April 27.

Original black and white photographic print, December 10, 1971: Larry Summers Collection.

1971-12-10

Digital reproduction of original black and white photographic print, December 10, 1971.

Florida Space Coast History Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.

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Manned Spacecraft Operations Building, John F. Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, Florida

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"APOLLO 16 (AS-511)." Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. Accessed July 30, 2015. http://airandspace.si.edu/explore-and-learn/topics/apollo/apollo-program/landing-missions/apollo16.cfm.

1 black and white photographic print