Apollo 16, NASA's fifth crewed Moon landing (Young, Duke, Mattingly), launched on Saturn V AS-511 from Kennedy LC-39A to the Descartes Highlands with LM Orion, CSM Casper, and a particles-and-fields subsatellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 48 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 13 Saturn V flights
- Date and time
- 16 April 1972, 17:54 UTC
- Rocket
- Saturn V
- Builder
- Boeing / North American / Douglas
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 1972-031
- Launches in 1972
- 32nd of 113
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