Apollo 16 - Full Mission Day 5 (Landing at Descartes)

Apollo 16 - Full Mission Day 5 (Landing at Descartes)

The fifth day of the mission starts with a wake up period, followed by Young and Duke transferring to the Lunar Module Orion and checking out the LM systems prior to undocking. After undocking, Ken Mattingly, alone in the Command Module Casper encounters a problem in the back up system for the Service Propulsion System engine which means the circularisation burn could not be completed. The crews were told to close the gap and station keep with each other in case a re-docking became necessary and the LMs Descent Engine was needed to help them get home. After several orbits of evaluation, it was determined that Young and Duke could attempt the 5th lunar landing, which occurred some 5 hours late. The coverage ends with the crews sleep period.

Note: During the mission the CSM and LM radio loops were separated with 2 CapCom's in communication with each spacecraft. The audio for Ken Mattingly in the CSM is not available complete. Some of the comms he had are included but it should be noted that this is incomplete and only recorded by PAO on this loop sporadically.

All video/audio/pictures courtesy NASA

Where TV/film/pictures are not available I have used Orbiter simulator video.

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My thanks to the following:

Robin Wheeler for his expertise in everything Apollo especially the photo index and the checklists
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.
Rob for the Apollo 16 news coverage used in the PAO sequences

It is highly recommended to the viewer to read along with the audio on the Apollo 16 Flight Journal and the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal

https://history.nasa.gov/afj/ap16fj/index.html

https://history.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/a16.html

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