National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationLaunch Successful
Apollo 16
Saturn V
Historical mission record
This page records Saturn V | Apollo 16 and its reported outcome: Launch Successful. The date above is a historical record.
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Mission status
Launch Successful
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LAUNCH SITEKennedy Space Center, FL, USA
Mission
Apollo 16 was the 10th crewed launch of the Apollo program. The craft was crewed by Commander John Young, Command Module Pilot Ken Mattingly & Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke. The mission duration was 11 days, 1 hour, 51 minutes & 5 seconds during which time Young and Duke spent 71 hours on the surface of the Moon spending a total of 20 hours and 14 minutes on moonwalks while Mattingly spend 126 hours or 64 orbits in lunar orbit. While conducting moonwalks, Young and Duke collected 95.8Kg of lunar samples. During return trip to Earth Mattingly performed an EVA to collect film cassettes from the exterior of the service module.
- Launch vehicle
- Saturn V
- Mission type
- Human Exploration
- Destination orbit
- Lunar Orbit
- Spacecraft
- LM Orion
- Destination
- Lunar Surface
- Launch pad
- Launch Complex 39A
- Provider
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Programs
- Apollo
The people behind the mission
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Launch crew
Apollo Casper CSM-113
Landing crew (3)Apollo Casper CSM-113
The vehicle
Published configuration and flight history.
Launch vehicle
Saturn V
The Saturn V was a human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. Most notably, the Saturn V took the Apollo program to the Moon. It still remains the world's tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and is the only launch vehicle to take humans beyond LEO.
- Height
- 110.6 m
- Diameter
- 10.1 m
- Stages
- 3
- Recorded launches
- 13
- First flight
- 1967-11-09
Recorded timing
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Launch site & orbit
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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Launch site
DestinationLunar Orbit
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