Monday, 20 April 2015

On 20th April 1972, Apollo 16's lunar module carrying astronauts John W.


On 20th April 1972, Apollo 16's lunar module carrying astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke Jr., landed on the moon.

During the Apollo 16 mission, Charles Duke left a family photo on the moon that was enclosed in a plastic bag.

Know more:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo16.html

Article:
http://www.space.com/20691-charles-duke-astronaut-biography.html

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13 comments:

  1. Sam Collett20 April 2015 at 11:11

    Maybe, when we go to the moon again, a relative may pick it up. Along with some golf balls that are probably still there

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  2. Corina Marinescu20 April 2015 at 11:12

    Indeed :)

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  3. Sam Collett20 April 2015 at 11:18

    Here's hoping people will be interested in the moon again like they were in the late 60's and early 70's

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  4. Boris Borcic20 April 2015 at 11:41

    Wonder how long the pigments could resist the punishing UV.

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  5. Jeffrey Kondas20 April 2015 at 13:36

    I don't believe it!

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  6. Gizmo the Sane20 April 2015 at 14:02

    The flags are supposed to have faded completely, Boris Borcic.

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  7. Gizmo the Sane20 April 2015 at 14:54

    https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/ApolloFlags-Condition.html

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  8. Marc Cox20 April 2015 at 15:22

    I edited Mission Highlights for dramatic effect ;-) These NASA guys must have had big brains and nerves of steel BOTH in space AND on the ground ... I wonder how much later it would be before they started building in redundant systems-computers etc. ? ...

    Anyhow, my hats off to these guys - being a software engineer I KNOW a moon mission using 1970's tech would require extreme patience and precision because all the programming had to be done in a few 1,000 bytes of memory whereas now we have Billions of bytes of memory .

    Mission Highlights

    Apollo 16 lifted off at ...

    Two significant command and service module problems – one en route to the moon and one in lunar orbit – contributed to a delay in landing and a subsequent early termination of the mission by one day.

    1) An erroneous signal indicating guidance system gimbal lock during translunar coast was neutralized by real time programming change instructing the spacecraft computer to ignore input.

    2) After undocking of Casper and Orion, circularization burn of the CSM was delayed when backup circuit caused yaw oscillations of service propulsion system.

    Orion landing was held until engineers determined oscillations would not seriously affect CSM steering ; however the engineers did determine that traveling at Mach 32 or 24,791 mph with loosey goosey steering would affect a lot of soiled underwear ;-)

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  9. Afzal Najam21 April 2015 at 17:26

    First piece of litter on the moon. #thanksHumans

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  10. G. Thomas Edwards22 April 2015 at 08:13

    The first off world cenotaph for humankind

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  11. Captain Jack1 May 2015 at 12:14

    Afzal Najam There is even litter on Mars.

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  12. Gizmo the Sane1 May 2015 at 14:47

    And this isn't exactly the first bit of debris on the Moon. Not even the first human debris on the moon.

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  13. G. Thomas Edwards1 May 2015 at 15:26

    There is more discarded crap up there then a midwest farm... the only difference is the stuff won't take on a nice rusty hue eventually melting into the landscape... course a couple of well placed rogue rocks hurling through space after getting bumped out the the belt, might just erase all of reminders of our earlier exploration... the universe has it handled.

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