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Biography
NASA Career
Apollo 16 Crews Are Announced
Previously published in the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center
Roundup
March 12, 1971
The prime and backup crews
for the Apollo 16 mission scheduled for launch in March 1972, have been
announced.
Prime crewmen are John W. Young,
Commander; Thomas K. Mattingly, Command Module Pilot; and Charles M. Duke,
Jr., Lunar Module Pilot. Backup crewmen are, respectively, Fred W. Haise,
Jr., Stuart A. Roosa, and Edgar D. Mitchell.
The lunar landing site for Apollo
16 has not yet been chosen; however, it will not be in a mare area.
The mission will last approximately
12 days, including a stay on the lunar surface of about 67 hours. Young
and Duke, using a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) will have three periods of
extravehicular activity on the lunar surface, totaling about 20 hours.
Young will be making his fourth
space flight. Mattingly, replaced as command module pilot for Apollo 13
after exposure to German measles, and Duke will be making their first flights.
Previously published in the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center Roundup
July 2, 1971
16 Site Selected
A mountainous highland
region of the moon has been chosen as the exploration site for the Apollo
16 mission, scheduled to land on the lunar surface in March 1972.
The landing point is Decartes, named
for a crater and located about nine degrees east and sixteen degrees south
of the center of the moon as viewed from earth.
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