Apollo 16 : la plus GRANDE mission scientifique de l’espace | FS𝕏 #15
Video from the channel Fascination X about Apollo 16, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 4:29. Language: French. Video type: Documentary.
A brief look at Apollo 16, the fifth Moon landing, launched on April 16, 1972, toward the highlands between the Descartes and Cayley formations, with John Young in command.
After several technical incidents in lunar orbit, the Orion module landed without problems. On the surface, Young and Duke deployed the lunar rover, a small ultraviolet telescope and the ALSEP station, and made three excursions with the LRV, covering 4.2, 11.3 and 11.4 km; the second set the record for the longest lunar excursion at 7 h 23 min. On the way back, Mattingly spent about 30 minutes outside the spacecraft to retrieve film.
The mission lasted 290 h 37 min, brought back 94.3 kg of rocks and showed that the explored region had been shaped by meteorite impacts rather than volcanoes.