Apollo 16 (April 16th 1972 - April 27th 1972) is a live mission of the Programme Apollo. Apollo 16 was the first to be posed on the high plateaus in the area of the Descartes crater.

Mission

• Takeoff: April 16th 1972 17:54: 00 UT
• To pose on the Moon: April 21st 1972 02:23: 35 Total UT
• of the exits: 20:14 min at 3 exits (new record)
• Distance covered: 27 kilometers (new record)
• brought back rocks: 95,8 kilograms (new record)
• Takeoff: April 24th 1972 01:25: 48 UT
• Lasted on the Moon: 71 H2 min (new record)
• Sea landing: April 27th 1972 19:45: 05

Crew

• Charles Duke (pilot of the lunar module)
• Ken Mattingly (pilot of the module of order, then pilot of the Columbia shuttles and Discovery)
• John W. Young (ordering lunar module, controls Gemini 3, commander of Gemini 10, pilot of the module of ordering of Apollo 10, commander of Columbia (STS-1), first to have flown on Spacelab (STS-9).