NASA Photo ID: S71-59357
Date Taken: 11/17/71
Astronauts John W. Young, left, prime crew commander for Apollo 16,
and Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, collect rock samples along
a simulated lunar
traverse route in the Coso Hills, near Ridgecrest, California. Astronaut
Eugene A. Cernan, right background, prime crew commander for Apollo 17,
looks on. The
astronauts trained at the U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station.