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Apollo 16 Lunar Rover Drive

View from the front of the Lunar Rover during a drive across the Descartes Plains. John Young (out of vision) is driving and Charlie Duke is filming this scene. The remote control TV camera dominates the foreground and the unfurled communications antennHistoric Context of ClipBackground to Apollo 16:Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the Apollo program and the fifth mission to land on the Moon. John Young and Charlie Duke spent three days exploring the Decartes Highlands with the Lunar Rover, returning 95.71kg of samples to Earth, whilst Ken Mattingly conducted experiments and observations from lunar orbit.

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Tags:. .unfurled. .descartes. .foreground. .program. .context











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