Apollo 16 Pilot Reflects Moonwalk on 50th Anniversary

Tilt up of Saturn V rocket mockup at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala., in a still from a video, on April 20, 2022. AP/Screenshot via The Epoch Times

On April 16th 1972 Apollo 16 blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a 12-day round trip to the moon.

Leading the crew was John Young and his colleagues Tom Mattingly and Charles Duke.