He landed on the moon with Apollo 16 in 1972, a year after his fellow Farragut alumni Alan Shepard made his own historic trip. Shepard, the first American in space back in 1961, was the oldest ...

Apollo 16 astronaut and moon walker Charlie Duke left a family photo on the lunar surface in 1972. It’s long gone, but a digital copy is headed back in a data storage payload aboard Intuitive ...

Tom Hanks said he knows for certain there are two things that are going to happen in the future of space exploration. One, ...

A fresh analysis of lunar dust collected by Apollo 16 astronauts in 1972 offers a clearer picture of the effects of asteroid strikes on the moon, allowing scientists to reconstruct billions of ...

Lunar Orbiter 2 and Apollo 16 both imaged the Ranger 8 impact site at relatively low resolution in 1966 and 1972, respectively. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged the crash site in greater ...

At the 16th Apollo CV Awards in 2025, industry leaders celebrated notable achievements in the Commercial Vehicle sector. The ...