MOON TOUR
APOLLO 16 LANDING SITE
Track down the landing site of the penultimate Apollo mission in the rugged lunar highlands
Two years ago we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, which saw the first humans walk on the surface of the Moon. One thing that became clear during those anniversary celebrations was that many people seem to believe that Apollo ended with the Eagle’s landing, and that everything which followed was just a postscript. That’s just not true. Every subsequent mission had its own highlights and its own firsts, even if they have now been largely forgotten by everyone except space historians and Apollo fanatics. And if any mission deserves the title of ‘the forgotten Apollo mission’, it would be Apollo 16, which went to the Moon 49 years ago.