Apollo 16

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

17:54:00

Sunday April 16, 1972

Watch Replay

Official Livestream

Mission Details

Apollo 16

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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

Rocket

Retired
Saturn V

Active 1967 to 1973

National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo

Agency

NASA

Price

$1160.00 million

Rocket

Height: 110.6m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 140,000 kg

Liftoff Thrust

35,100 Kilonewtons

Stages

3

Launch Site

LC-39A

Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

5 days 6 hours

Stats

Saturn V


11th

Mission

1st

Mission of 1972

1972


32nd

Orbital launch attempt