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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
17:54:00
Sunday April 16, 1972
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John Young and Charles Duke spent 71 hours—just under three days—on the lunar surface, during which they conducted three extra-vehicular activities or moonwalks, totaling 20 hours and 14 minutes. The pair drove the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV), the second produced and used on the Moon, 26.7 kilometers (16.6 mi). On the surface, Young and Duke collected 95.8 kilograms (211 lb) of lunar samples for return to Earth, while Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly orbited in the Command/Service Module (CSM) above to perform observations. Mattingly spent 126 hours and 64 revolutions in lunar orbit.
Trans Lunar Injection
1 Payload
48,673 kilograms
11th
Mission
1st
Mission of 1972
32nd
Orbital launch attempt