Apolo 16: La misión lunar que reveló secretos de Descartes

Video from the channel Explorando Misterios Cósmicos about Apollo 16, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 6:37. Language: Spanish. Video type: Documentary.

This is an educational piece in Spanish, narrated over music, that reviews the Apollo 16 mission. It covers the launch with a Saturn V from Cape Canaveral in April 1972, the three-day journey to the Moon, the descent of the lunar module Orion to the Descartes highlands, and the return with the command module Casper, piloted by Thomas Mattingly.

The video frames Apollo 16 as the second-to-last crewed mission to the Moon. Its destination was a high, mountainous region that until then had only been observed from a distance. John Young and Charles Duke became the ninth and tenth humans to walk on the lunar surface.

With the lunar rover vehicle, Young and Duke made three moonwalks and collected 95 kg of rocks and soil. They deployed the ALSEP, a set of instruments designed to keep transmitting data after their departure, including seismometers, magnetometers and a heat flow experiment, plus sheets to capture solar wind particles. After three days on the surface, Orion's ascent stage lifted off and docked with Casper, and the crew began the journey home with the samples.