Apollo 16 was the fifth manned mission to land on the Moon and the first to land in the highlands area

1. Apollo 16 Apollo 16 was the fifth manned mission to land on the Moon and the first to land in the highlands area The crew was (l-r) T. Kenneth Mattingly Jr. (Command Module Pilot) John W. Young (Commander) Charles M. Duke Jr. (Lunar Module Pilot)

2. Apollo 16 The mission was launched on April 16, 1972 and lasted 11 days and 2 hours 5 days and 6 hours was spent orbiting the Moon 2 days and 23 hours was spent on the surface of the Moon

3. Apollo 16

4. Apollo 16 They got to drive around the landing site and collected 95.71 kilograms (211 pounds) of lunar rock

5. Apollo 16 65015.46 is the 46th chip from the 15th rock collected at the 5th stop It is a metamorphosed impact melt breccia, which was created when a meteorite slammed into the Moon’s surface This is what the sample looks like when you make a thin section and view it in polarized light

6. Apollo 16 http://curator.jsc.nasa.gov/lunar/lsc/65015.pdf