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US Space and Rocket Center completes cleaning of Apollo 16 Command Module

The U.S. Space and Rocket Center has completed the annual cleaning of the Apollo 16 Command module. The work ensures the ...
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This Apollo Era Lunar Module Never Made it to the Moon, Stranded In A Museum Instead

Is there anything more tragic than a spacecraft that never makes it to space? A vehicle with every intention of bringing men to worlds beyond but is instead stuck here on Earth, with only us lame ...
Florida Today

Apollo 16 at 50: Lunar highlands not created by volcanoes, crew brought back 26-pound moon rock

Apollo 16 was notable not for the news it made but the news the crew received while on the lunar surface in 1972. During an April 21 moon walk, mission Commander John Young received a message from ...
Astronomy

50 years ago, Apollo 16 roved the lunar highlands

When Duke and Young hit the regolith, it marked the first time that astronauts had set foot in the rugged lunar highlands. Apollo 16’s landing site was Descartes, a region some 7,400 feet (2,250 ...
Astronomy

Apollo 16: Remembering the penultimate Moon mission, 50 years later

Fifty years ago, Apollo 16 almost didn’t land on the Moon. On April 20, 1972, two spacecraft danced in tight formation, high above a ubiquitous gray and tan lunar landscape. Aboard the Lunar Module ...
Hackaday

Apollo Lunar Module Thrust Meter Lives Again

Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...