Apollo 16, the 10th manned mission in the United States Apollo space program, launched on April 16, 1972, after being delayed from its original March 17 launch date. This was the first launch delay in ...

Apollo 16 launch. On April 16, 1972, the Apollo 16 space vehicle launched from Launch Complex 39, Pad A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. (Image credit: NASA) ...

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, the Apollo 16 Saturn V space vehicle carrying astronauts John W. Young, Thomas K. Mattingly II, and Charles M. Duke, Jr., lifted off to the ...

Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke 'very excited' by new era in US space travel. NASA teams up with SpaceX to launch astronauts into space from American soil for the first time in a decade; Apollo ...

Of the 17 Apollo astronauts still alive, Walter Cunningham of Apollo 7, Rusty Schweickart of Apollo 8, Fred Haise of Apollo 13, Al Worden of Apollo 15, Charlie Duke of Apollo 16, Harrison Schmitt ...

Mattingly circled the moon on Apollo 16, ... Members of the Apollo 13 crew leave the launch site after finishing a demonstration in the spaceship, March 26, 1970 at Cape Kennedy in Florida.

Mattingly circled the moon on Apollo 16, ... Members of the Apollo 13 crew leave the launch site after finishing a demonstration in the spaceship, March 26, 1970 at Cape Kennedy in Florida.

Mattingly circled the moon on Apollo 16, ... Members of the Apollo 13 crew leave the launch site after finishing a demonstration in the spaceship, March 26, 1970 at Cape Kennedy in Florida.

Mattingly circled the moon on Apollo 16, but is just as remembered for the flight he didn't take: He was scrubbed from Apollo 13 days before launch.

Mattingly circled the moon on Apollo 16, but is just as remembered for the flight he didn't take: He was scrubbed from Apollo 13 days before launch.

Mattingly circled the moon on Apollo 16, ... Members of the Apollo 13 crew leave the launch site after finishing a demonstration in the spaceship, March 26, 1970 at Cape Kennedy in Florida.

Mattingly circled the moon on Apollo 16, but is just as remembered for the flight he didn't take: He was scrubbed from Apollo 13 days before launch. Astronaut Thomas "Ken" Mattingly, who orbited the ...