IMAGE 400_499\448.Lbm,Emblem for Apollo 16, April 1972: Young, Mattingly, Duke.
xxIMAGE 1500_99\594a.Lbm,The Apollo 16 crew (from the left): Thomas Mattingly, John Young and Charles Duke.
xxIMAGE 1500_99\594b.Lbm,John Young (left) and Charles Duke, with simulated Apollo backpacks and cameras, brush up their geology during a training session. (Apollo 16)
IMAGE 1500_99\595.Lbm,Charles Duke trains on a simulated lunar surface at the Kennedy Space Center. (Apollo 16)
IMAGE 1500_99\596.Lbm,Rollout from the VAB of the Apollo 16/Saturn V stack on December 13, 1971.
IMAGE 1500_99\597.Lbm,Apollo 16 lifts off on April 16, 1972.
IMAGE 1500_99\598.Lbm,The Apollo 16 astronauts snapped this view of a cloudy Earth shortly after they were boosted out of Earth orbit. But much of the USA is clear.
IMAGE 1500_99\599.Lbm,The scene at Mission Control, Houston, as Apollo 16 was pulling rapidly away from the Earth, shown on the TV monitor.
IMAGE 1600_99\600.Lbm,A colour TV frame shows the Apollo 16 lunar module 'Orion' in the lunar highlands.
xxIMAGE 1600_99\600a.Lbm,Charles Duke salutes the newly deployed US flag, as is traditional. (Apollo 16)
IMAGE 1600_99\601.Lbm,Mission commander John Young salutes the US flag, departing from tradition by simultaneously jumping off the ground! (Apollo 16)
IMAGE 1600_99\602.Lbm,A cosmic ray detector is placed by one of the lunar module's landing legs. (Apollo 16)
IMAGE 1600_99\603.Lbm,A colour TV picture shows John Young setting up a magnetometer. (Apollo 16)
IMAGE 1600_99\605.Lbm,John Young collecting rock and soil samples at the edge of a crater, using a 'rake' and a set of tongs. (Apollo 16)
IMAGE 1600_99\606.Lbm,Astronaut's tools of the trade, a scoop to take samples (left) and geological hammer. (Apollo 16)
IMAGE 1600_99\607.Lbm,Part of the Apollo 16 ALSEP scientific station, showing in the foreground a seismometer. The large apparatus is the central unit with transmitter to send readings back to Earth.
IMAGE 1600_99\608.Lbm,Kicking up dust, John Young puts the lunar rover through its paces. (Apollo 16)
xxIMAGE 1600_99\609.Lbm,The rear of the lunar rover, showing the stowed tools. (Apollo 16)
IMAGE 1600_99\611.Lbm,The lunar rover, pictured from a distance from 'Orion'. (Apollo 16)
IMAGE 1600_99\612.Lbm,Gnomon among the rocks on the second EVA. Charles Duke stands beside the lunar rover. (Apollo 16)
IMAGE 1600_99\613.Lbm,A dust-covered John Young continues to collect samples during the mission's third EVA. (Apollo 16)
IMAGE 1600_99\614.Lbm,An enhanced false-colour picture of Earth taken from the Apollo 16 landing site with a special far-ultraviolet camera. It shows in red the faint hydrogen 'halo' that surrounds our planet.
xxIMAGE 1600_99\615.Lbm,Another picture taken from the Apollo 16 landing site with the far-ultraviolet camera. The subject is the nearest galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud.
IMAGE 1600_99\617.Lbm,Undulating terrain on the farside of the Moon. (Apollo 16)
IMAGE 1600_99\618.Lbm,The ascent stage of the lunar module 'Orion' draws close to the CSM 'Caspar' after lifting off the Moon. (Apollo 16)
IMAGE 1600_99\619.Lbm,After splashdown in the Pacific on April 27, 1972, the Apollo 16 astronauts are welcomed aboard the recovery ship USS 'Ticonderoga'. John Young is at the microphone.
