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Related: About this forum40 Years Since the Apollo 16 Moon Landing
APR 20 2012, 6:57 AM ET 1
This weekend marks the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 16 lunar landing, the second-to-last mission that brought humans to the moon. Above, the iconic picture of NASA astronaut John Young as he salutes the American flag.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/04/picture-of-the-day-40-years-since-the-apollo-16-moon-landing/256148/
Jumping John
(930 posts)Drale
(7,932 posts)You know there is far less gravity on the moon right? He could have jumped up.
Jumping John
(930 posts)DCKit
(18,541 posts)flyingfysh
(1,990 posts)pokerfan
(27,677 posts)NASA Photo ID: AS16-113-18339 File Name: 10075832.jpg
Film Type: 70mm Date Taken: 04/20/72
Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission,
leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the U.S. Flag at the Descartes
landing site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity (EVA-1).
Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, took this picture. The
Lunar Module (LM) "Orion" is on the left. The Lunar Roving Vehicle is
parked beside the LM. The object behind Young in the shade of the LM is
the Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph. Stone Mountain dominates the
background in this lunar scene.
http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/mirrors/images/images/pao/AS16/10075832.htm
Dead_Parrot
(14,478 posts)bluerum
(6,109 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,604 posts)Clearly it's a photo taken on the moon.
Javaman
(62,540 posts)it's a very famous video.
Also you will notice that his shaddow matches his position.
bluerum
(6,109 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,604 posts)lastlib
(23,393 posts)(for a general...)
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)The fifth trip to the surface of the moon...it seemed like risky business, but also like we'd figured out how to do it and that we were on our way to making such visits routine.
tclambert
(11,087 posts)The youngest astronaut to walk on the Moon is now 76. Three of the twelve have died.
In December, we will mark the 40th anniversary of the last man to walk on the Moon. Ever.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)While manned lunar landings only lasted 3 1/2 years, NASA at least continued to capture my imagination during the rest of the decade with the Apollo-Soyuz docking, and the Mariner (Venus), Viking (Mars), Pioneer (Jupiter) and Voyager (Solar System) unmanned programs.
stevedeshazer
(21,653 posts)Too bad they had to leave that Kia behind.
Gore1FL
(21,185 posts)At the time we were going to the moon there were 2 space faring nations.
There are 2 space faring nations today. Neither are the United States.
jimlup
(7,968 posts)It was older and much less volcanic than they expected. It was perhaps the key piece of evidence in our current picture of the evolution of the moon.