NASA is celebrating the 53rd anniversary of the Apollo 16 mission which touched down on the Moon on April 21. Besides being ...

Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo ...

Click "confirm" to place your bid for this lot. Click "confirm" to purchase this lot. The Apollo 16 Mission landed in and explored Descartes Highlands on the moon. Due to numerous mechanical concerns, ...

(CBS) – On this day in history, April 16, 1972, the Apollo 16 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke spent a record-breaking 71 hours on the moon. The ...

All soviet cosmonauts, all Space Shuttle missions, and all other astronauts ... and Nixon was going to cancel Apollo 16 and 17 but was convinced not to. Photo of flight director’s console.

On April 11, 1970, the Apollo 13 spacecraft was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on the third U.S. moon-landing mission.

On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...

In April 1972, Young became one of the 12 people who have walked on the Moon so far, when he commanded the Apollo 16 mission to the Earth’s satellite. Three years earlier, the California native ...