Fifty years ago, on April 11th, 1973, the crew of Apollo 16 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, marking the fifth manned mission to the moon and the second by the United States. This mission was unique in that it was the first to include a lunar rover which allowed the astronauts to explore the surface of the moon more extensively than ever before. The astronauts gathered a total of 208.95 pounds of moon rocks for analysis and returned to Earth on April 27th, 1973. This mission was a major milestone in the history of space exploration and a reminder of how far we’ve come in the last fifty years.

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source: Phys.org