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Penultimate Mission [1]

Apollo 16, the next-to-last mission to the Moon, launches in April 1972. It landed in a rugged region in the Moon's highlands, where astronauts John Young and Charles Duke spent three days gathering samples and driving their lunar rover. Their work showed that volcanic mountains on the Moon are few and far between. [NASA]

Moon and Antares
apollo 16 launch, 1972
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