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Half a century ago, on April 20, 1972, Apollo 16 set down in the Descartes Highlands of the moon. Astronauts Commander John Young and Lunar Module Pilot Charles Duke were scheduled to take a moonwalk ...

Apollo astronaut Ken “TK” Mattingly, known for orbiting the moon and helping the crew of Apollo 13 return to Earth in the 1970s, died Tuesday, NASA announced. He was 87. “We lost one of our country’s ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — The Apollo 16 ...

Though NASA expected their complicated machines would not always work right, the first deaths in the space program still came as a shock -- because the fatal mishap occurred on the ground. Gus Grissom ...

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Earth’s moon. On July 16, 1969, Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were launched from Cape Kennedy atop a ...

Apollo 16 was notable not for the news it made but the news the crew received while on the lunar surface in 1972. During an April 21 moon walk, mission Commander John Young received a message from ...

"We were excited [though] we were six hours late landing and [on] the last revolution we could land." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

Thomas K. Mattingly, a key commander during the Apollo 16 mission to the moon, died at age 87, NASA announced Thursday. Mattingly, known as Ken or T.K., died on Oct. 31, NASA confirmed in a statement.

NASA astronaut Ken Mattingly, who orbited the moon during the Apollo 16 mission, has died. He was 87. The space agency confirmed Mattingly died on Tuesday. “NASA astronaut TK Mattingly was key to the ...