Apollo 16 America's 5th Moon Landing 1972 Commemorative Medallion Bronze Vintage

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1972 Apollo 16, Lunar Rover Descartes
Bronze64 Apollo 16, Mattingly, Young, Duke-reverse Descartes April 16-27, 1972, 71 Hours on the Moon, Water landingThe Medal was designed by Ralph J. Menconiand struck by Medallic Art Co. comes with original Pamphlet.Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program , the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon and the first to land in the lunar highlands . The second of the so-called " J missions ," it was crewed by Commander John Young , Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke and Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly . Launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:54 PM EST on April 16, 1972, the mission lasted 11 days, 1 hour, and 51 minutes, and concluded at 2:45 PM EST on April 27. [2] [3] [4]Young and 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.