Who was the youngest person to walk on the Moon during Apollo 16?
Charles Duke became the youngest human to ever walk on another world at thirty-six years old. He stepped onto the lunar surface on the 21st of April 1972.
Charles Duke became the youngest human to ever walk on another world at thirty-six years old. He stepped onto the lunar surface on the 21st of April 1972.
Scientists chose the Descartes Highlands west of Mare Nectaris because they believed it was formed by volcanic action. The mission landed between two young impact craters named North Ray and South Ray.
The pair spent seventy-one hours on the surface conducting three moonwalks that totaled over twenty hours. Their extravehicular activities lasted twenty hours and fourteen minutes in total.
Analysis confirmed the Cayley Formation was not volcanic in nature and there was no evidence that Stone Mountain was volcanic either. Scientists realized they had been too reliant on analogues from Earth and concluded there are few if any volcanic mountains on the Moon.
Mattingly performed an eighty-three-minute spacewalk during the return trip to retrieve film cassettes from the exterior of the service module. He remained alone in the command module for 126 hours while his crewmates walked on the surface.