Apollo 16 - Full Mission Day 4 (Arrival at the Moon)

Apollo 16 - Full Mission Day 4 (Arrival at the Moon)

The fourth day of the Apollo 16 mission saw the crew prepare for lunar orbit insertion (LOI) and descent orbit insertion (DOI) a few orbits later. They jettison the SIMBAY door to reveal the experiments that they will use to study and photograph the moon with in the planned 5 days in lunar orbit. The crew offers a running commentary of the lunar surface as they complete 5 orbits before saying goodnight to Houston in preparation for the following days activities - lunar landing day.

All video/audio/pictures courtesy NASA

Where TV/film/pictures are not available I have used Orbiter (and some KSP) simulator video.

All media courtesy NASA

My thanks to the following:

Steven Taylor for the KSP sequence showing SIMBay activation
Robin Wheeler for his expertise in everything Apollo especially the photo index
Johannes Kemppanen for providing checklists and documents
Ed Hengeveld for the sending of numerous photographs in the series
Paolo Mangili for his amazing MOCR which continues to enhance these series

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