Apollo 16 astronaut looks to the future of space
Video from the channel AP Archive about Apollo 16, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 2:23. Language: English. Video type: News.
This is an AP news piece featuring statements from Charlie Duke, retired NASA astronaut and Apollo 16 crew member, published in 2022. Duke states that NASA will focus on deep space, toward the Moon and beyond. He also welcomes companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin opening up space to more people and more science.
His remarks are interspersed with archival footage of the launch and the time spent on the lunar surface in 1972.
Duke anticipates that in a couple of months the Space Launch System will be launched to test that part of the vehicle. He adds that seeing the Earth suspended in space will move many people, and that, with persistence, the limit is the Moon or Mars.