Saturn V | Apollo 16
Launch Complex 39A
Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Apollo 16
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.
LM Orion
Serial LM-11
Launch Crew Count 0
Status Destroyed
Landing Time 1972-04-21T02:23:35+0000
Saturn V
Height 110.60 Meters
Max Stages 3
Mass To GTO 0 kg
Liftoff Thrust 35100 kN
Diameter 10.10 Meters
Mass To LEO 140000 kg
Liftoff Mass 2970 Tonnes
Launch Success 12
Consecutive Success 11
Maiden Flight 1967-11-09
Launch Failures 1
Programs
Apollo
The Apollo program was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.
