Apollo 16 lunar rover. An astronaut with a lunar rover on the Moon's surface during the Apollo 16 mission. During this mission,astronaut John Watts Young (born 1930) achieved a lunar wheeled vehicle speed record of 18 kilometres per hour. Apollo 16 landed two astronauts in the Descartes Highlands for just under three days,from 21-24 April 1972,the other being US astronaut Charles Duke. Young and Duke carried out three excursions on the lunar surface,and collected over 90 kilograms of lunar rocks | |
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