Duke took the flags with him to the Moon on Apollo 16 in 1972. “We are grateful to General Duke for this generous ...

Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...

Apollo 16 (1972) was commanded by John Young with Lunar Module Pilot ... Duke felt a marked sense of emptiness after the Moon ...

To take advantage of new science and technology, NASA cracked open one of the last ... While analyzing samples collected during the Apollo 16 mission, Nottingham and his colleagues used mass ...

George R. Carruthers, an astrophysicist and engineer was the principal designer of a telescope that went to the moon as part ...

That same day, NASA managers met to select a formal target launch date. That meeting resulted in 16 July 1969 being chosen as Apollo 11’s launch day – a target the mission would meet.

Charlie Duke was the Lunar Module Pilot on Apollo 16. Credit: NASA Apollo 16 (1972) was commanded by John Young with Lunar Module Pilot Charlie Duke. Called “the astronaut’s astronaut” by ...