Apollo 16 Multimedia


Apollo 16 Video Library

Corrected transcript copyright © 1996 Eric M. Jones.
All rights reserved.
Video descriptions and HTML by Joseph O'Dea.
Last revised 6 September 2006.

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Sections:

Landing Day

The First EVA

The Second EVA

The Third EVA


Landing at Descartes

Journal Text: 104:26:09 to 104:30:52.   QuickTime Clip: (4 minutes 55 seconds; 8.7 MB) by Gary Neff, source footage courtesy Eric Jones.

Apollo 16 - Landing in the Descartes Highlands - April 20, 1972. The fifth lunar landing was filmed by the 16mm data acquisition camera through lunar module pilot Charlie Duke's right-hand window. The clip begins at approximately 15,000 feet altitude, about 30 seconds before the P64 program begins with pitchover at high gate. When the lunar module tilts forward, craters Gator, Lone Star, Palmetto, and Kiva are revealed. Communications quality degrades, with intermittent static on the soundtrack until after they have landed, when Houston suggests they go to aft omni. John Young switches to P66 manual mode at 300 feet. The shadow of the lunar module appears as a black spot on the ground between 300 and 200 feet. Blowing dust becomes visible at 80 feet, and the shadow of the landing gear appears at 50 feet. The clip runs until over a minute after touchdown and contains Charlie Duke's exuberant yells after landing and initial astronaut comments about the landing site. The voices are those of Duke, Young, and capcom Jim Irwin.


Deploying the Rover

Journal Text: 119:17:25   QuickTime Clip: (4 minutes 44 seconds; 8.6 MB) by Gary Neff.

This silent film shows Charlie Duke and Bob Parker (capcom on Apollos 15 & 17 and Skylabs 2 & 3; Mission Specialist on STS-9 & STS-35) at a rover mock-up deployment demonstration in 1970 at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The film shows clearly the rover's automatic self-unfolding mechanism.


Loading the Rover

Journal Text: 120:05:38   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 15 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 120:08:35   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 120:11:17   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 47 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 120:13:55   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 18 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 120:17:04   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 55 seconds) by Ken Glover


ALSEP Off-load

Journal Text: 120:19:51   RealVideo Clip (3 minutes 10 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 120:22:55   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 41 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 120:25:02 to 120:26:57.   QuickTime Clip: (1 minute 54 seconds; 1.33 MB)

The television camera mounted on the lunar rover records the astronauts photographing each other beside the flag. Duke appears first, getting into position beyond the flag. Young walks into view and does a “Big Navy Salute” by bending his knees slightly, springing about half a metre off the ground, and saluting. They switch positions and Young takes Duke's picture. Duke returns to the rover, followed by Young.

Journal Text: 120:25:23   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 21 seconds) by Ken Glover

The astronauts take each other's pictures beside the flag. Ken Glover writes: “The RealVideo Clip has a frame rate of 15 fps. This clip was produced from a high-resolution AVI file which I captured from the VHS source, but the RealVideo clip itself was optimized for streaming over slow (56k modem) connections and is therefore somewhat degraded in terms of resolution. For students interested in analyzing John's 'Big Navy Salute', I have made a short, 2.7 MB MPEG-1 clip of better resolution and at 29.97 fps, showing only the two jumps.”

Journal Text: 120:28:31   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 41 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 120:32:05   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 120:34:46   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 38 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 120:37:13   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 10 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 120:55:22   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 44 seconds) by Ken Glover


Losing the Heat Flow Experiment

Journal Text: 120:57:59   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:0034   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 7 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:03:34   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 44 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:06:12   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 10 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:09:13   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:11:53   RealVideo Clip: (1 minute 12 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:13:11   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 58 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:15:48   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 7 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:18:48   RealVideo Clip: (2 minute 36 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:21:08   RealVideo Clip: (4 minutes 33 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:21:21 to 121:22:45.   QuickTime Clip: (1 minute 30 seconds; 1.05 MB)

While Duke talks off-camera to capcom Tony England, Young can be seen at the ALSEP Central Station where he snags his foot in the cable leading to the Heat Flow Experiment and tears it loose from the Central Station. Duke appears on-camera as he approaches to see the damage. The astronauts' voices are full of contrition and disappointment.


Drilling the Deep Core

Journal Text: 121:25:36   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 24 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:29:52   QuickTime Clip: (52 seconds; 0.6 MB)

John Young uses the Universal Handling Tool to erect the Central Station. Off-camera to the left, Duke works on a deep core. At 12 seconds into the clip he falls down just outside camera range, sending a shower of dust into the foreground of the camera picture. The camera zooms out, pans left, and finds Charlie struggling to stand up. When he gains his feet, the camera returns to observing John.

Journal Text: 121:30:17   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 4 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:33:11   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 47 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:36:49   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 35 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:39:42   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:42:17   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 30 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:45:34   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 24 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:48:51   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 24 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:52:04   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 4 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:52:29   QuickTime Clip: (1 minute 19 seconds; 1 MB)

Young, in the background, is beside the Lunar Surface Magnetometer. Nearer the camera, Duke bends down and picks the rammer-jammer up off the ground. He feeds it into the core hole bored into the ground earlier and releases it - it falls smoothly into the hole. Next, he spots a pretty rock on the ground and picks it up and examines it. CapCom Tony England tells him to “Blow on it” to remove the dust. It is a 3-centimetre sphere of black glass.


Thumper/Geophone Experiment

Journal Text: 121:54:46   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 4 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 121:57:45   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 21 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 122:00:58   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 55 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 122:08:53   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 38 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 122:11:23   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 15 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 122:14:32   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 122:17:14   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 44 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 122:19:53   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 55 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 122:22:40   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 15 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 122:25:42   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 122:28:24   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 55 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 122:31:08   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 21 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 122:34:28   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 10 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 122:37:28   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 15 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 122:40:37   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 59 seconds) by Ken Glover


GeoPrep for the EVA-1 Traverse

Journal Text: 122:44:15   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 18 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 122:47:28   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 58 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 122:50:19   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 4 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 122:53:17   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 55 seconds) by Ken Glover


Station 1 at Plum Crater

Journal Text: 123:28:48   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 55 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 123:31:35   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 47 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 123:34:16   RealVideo Clip: (4 minutes 24 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 123:38:41   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 21 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 123:41:45   RealVideo Clip: (4 minutes 7 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 123:46:09   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 30 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 123:49:26   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 44 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 123:50:49   QuickTime Clip: (1 minute 37 seconds; 1.1 MB)

Charlie finds a layer of bright white soil under the grey topsoil in a footprint at the rim of Plum Crater. He scoops a small trench, spilling white soil like chalk dust all over the grey surface. The contrasting soils are clearly visible in the television picture. A member of the Experiments team in the backroom in Houston tells the flight director they want scooped samples of the white and the grey soils.

Journal Text: 123:52:04   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 55 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 123:55:06   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 123:57:40   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 13 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 124:00:45   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 24 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 124:04:00   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 29 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 124:06:23   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 4 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 124:07:39   QuickTime Clip: (1 minute 4 seconds; 0.78 MB)

Houston asks Charlie to collect an 11.729 kilogram, football-sized, anorthosite rock from the rim of Plum Crater. It is the largest rock returned from the moon by any lunar mission and is a coarse-grained, nonvesicular, crystalline, igneous rock composed largely of plagioclase. Duke later named it “Big Muley” after Bill Muehlberger, Apollo 16's principal investigator for geology. He stands in the crater downslope of the rock and, leaning on his scoop, he kneels to pick it up and rolls it awkwardly up to his hip, leaving behind a sizeable clean hole in the ground where the rock was embedded. Meanwhile, John Young comes around the crater rim in the background, returning to the rover. As Duke returns to the rover Big Muley is well displayed clasped to his hip as he passes the television camera.

Journal Text: 124:09:23   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 32 seconds) by Ken Glover


Station 2 at Buster Crater

Journal Text: 124:23:20   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 4 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 124:26:12   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 4 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 124:29:08   RealVideo Clip: (4 minutes 7 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 124:32:38   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 10 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 124:36:15   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 4 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 124:39:11   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 10 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 124:39:15   QuickTime Clip: (1 minute 17 seconds; 0.9 MB)

While a member of the Experiments team speaks to the flight director on the audio track in this clip, Duke performs some acrobatic juggling when he uses his scoop to lift a very friable, white, anorthosite rock sample from the ground near Buster Crater. As he raises the scoop, the rock flies up and he almost catches it in his right hand as it falls. It bounces off his hand, flies up, rebounds off his left hand, and he reaches again with his right before it falls to the ground. Laughter in Houston can be heard on the soundtrack. Trying again, Charlie uses the scoop to flip the rock up in the “air” like a deft hurler and catches it in his right hand as it falls. However, he drops his sample bag to the ground in the process.

Journal Text: 124:41:30   QuickTime Clip: (45 seconds; 0.5 MB)

John comes to pick up Charlie's fallen sample collection bags and dispenser from the ground. After handing them to Charlie, he returns to collect the Lunar Portable Magnetometer, his progress followed by the television camera panning to the left. Charlie puts his latest rock sample in a bag. It is so soft and friable that it breaks in two in his hand.

Journal Text: 124:42:15   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 56 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 124:46:12   RealVideo Clip: (23 seconds) by Ken Glover


Grand Prix

Journal Text: 124:58:10   QuickTime Clip: (31 seconds; 2.2 MB) by Gordon Roxburgh.

Young puts the lunar rover through its paces by driving at speed and performing sharp turns and stops so that Duke can record it on film for the rover engineers using the data acquisition camera. This silent 16mm clip begins with the ALSEP site in the background. The rover speeds up to 10 kph and bounces dramatically in the craters, sending the wheels into the air. The wheels send up “rooster tail” sprays of dust and skid sharply in the turns. The clip concludes with Young driving off, bouncing in the craters towards the lunar module.


EVA-1 Close-out

Journal Text: 125:13:58   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 52 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 125:16:26   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 47 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 125:19:04   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 38 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 125:22:39   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 41 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 125:25:20   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 125:28:03   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 10 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 125:31:08   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 15 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 125:34:20   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 1 second) by Ken Glover


Down the Ladder for EVA-2

Journal Text: 142:56:23   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 52 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 142:59:12   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 52 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 143:01:59   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 1 second) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 143:04:54   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 3 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 143:07:52   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 1 second) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 143:10:43   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 143:13:36   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 39 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 143:17:06   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 59 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 143:20:03   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 4 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 143:21:59   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 56 seconds) by Ken Glover


Geology Station 4 at the Stone Mountain Cincos

Journal Text: 144:12:56   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 27 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 144:16:21   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 33 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 144:18:50   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 25 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 144:22:10   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 29 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 144:24:36   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 35 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 144:27:07   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 58 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 144:29:57   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 52 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 144:32:39   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 36 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 144:35:24   QuickTime Clip: (1 minute 3 seconds; 0.76 MB)

Charlie pushes the penetrometer into the ground. As it sinks all the way in he goes down with it, then stumbles forward and falls onto his hands. He does a press-up and springs back up to a standing position. Half-kneeling, he leans down to pull the penetrometer back out of the ground.

Journal Text: 144:36:10   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 13 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 144:39:18   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 47 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 144:41:56   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 29 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 144:44:18   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 24 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 144:46:38   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 52 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 144:49:35   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 13 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 144:52:40   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 144:55:24   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 7 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 144:58:22   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 16 seconds) by Ken Glover


Geology Station 5

Journal Text: 145:13:27   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 145:16:13   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 27 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 145:19:33   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 24 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 145:21:51   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 47 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 145:24:23   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 35 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 145:27:13   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 58 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 145:30:03   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 10 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 145:33:00   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 21 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 145:36:19   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 145:39:04   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 52 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 145:41:56   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 52 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 145:44:41   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 1 second) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 145:47:51   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 145:50:31   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 59 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 145:54:24   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 1 second) by Ken Glover


Geology Station 6

Journal Text: 146:09:31   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 44 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 146:12:07   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 52 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 146:14:53   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 13 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 146:18:02   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 44 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 146:20:41   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 7 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 146:23:42   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 1 second) by Ken Glover


Geology Station 8

Journal Text: 146:44:50   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 38 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 146:48:21   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 44 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 146:49:41   QuickTime Clip: (1 minute 31 seconds; 1.1 MB)

Duke hammers a core tube into the ground until it meets a rock and won't go any further. Then the hammer flies from his hand and he makes four attempts to pick it up by bending down and leaning to reach for it. He gives up and returns to the rover to get the tongs to pick up the hammer. He tells Houston he thinks he hit a rock and that the core tube won't go in any further. He asks if he should try driving the tube in at a different location. A member of the Science team on the flight director loop says “Yes” and capcom Tony England relays that to Charlie.

Journal Text: 146:52:05   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 7 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 146:55:03   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 24 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 146:58:24   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 147:01:09   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 31 second) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 147:03:38   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 1 second) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 147:08:01   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 55 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 147:11:11   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 4 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 147:14:03   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 44 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 147:16:42   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 55 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 147:19:31   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 12 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 147:22:41   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 7 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 147:25:40   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 147:28:19   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 30 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 147:31:36   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 13 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 147:34:48   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 18 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 147:38:00   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 29 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 147:40:24   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 29 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 147:42:53   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 32 seconds) by Ken Glover


Geology Station 9 - The Great Sneak

Journal Text: 147:55:57   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 32 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 147:58:28   RealVideo Clip: (1 minute 55 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 148:00:26   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 41 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 148:03:53   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 24 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 148:07:52   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 47 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 148:10:29   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 38 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 148:14:04   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 7 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 148:14:44   MPEG Clip: (1 minute 13 seconds; 7.6 MB) by Kipp Teague.

Sampling under a rock: Young, followed by Duke, carefully approaches a 1-metre rock he turned over a short time ago ( see AS16-107-17573 ). Duke scoops a sample of undisturbed soil from the hole in which the rock lay. Young lays his hammer on the rock and readies a sample bag, and Duke pours the sample into it. They describe the rock as containing both white crystal and black glass. It's quite clear in this television clip that the legs of Charlie's suit are completely covered in dark grey dust.

Journal Text: 148:17:10   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 7 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 148:20:05   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 10 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 148:23:09   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 21 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 148:25:21   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 32 seconds) by Ken Glover


Geology Station 10 near the ALSEP Site

Journal Text: 148:57:33   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 149:00:26   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 24 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 149:02:38   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 55 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 149:05:35   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 52 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 149:08:17   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 4 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 149:11:14   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 7 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 149:11:36   MPEG Clip: (1 minute 5 seconds; 6.8 MB) by Kipp Teague.

Charlie drives the penetrometer into the soil and, leaning down on it as it descends, he falls forward to the ground. It takes three attempts for him to get back up by doing press-ups to a kneeling position before standing. In the middle of his second press-up, he supports his whole body on his hands, completely off the ground for two seconds (the feat is captured in this video still). The strip of white soil in the background is the South Ray Crater ejecta blanket.

Journal Text: 149:14:13   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 7 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 149:17:13   RealVideo Clip: (1 minute 58 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 149:19:06   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 27 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 149:20:40   MPEG Clip: (51 seconds; 5.4 MB) by Kipp Teague.

This excellent sequence was recorded just before the television camera was turned off prior to John driving the lunar rover from Station 10 back to the lunar module. It shows Charlie carrying a sample collection bag in his right hand and running northeastwards from the rover back to the MESA. He covers about 55 meters in 45 seconds and, following his movements across the surface, we can see that he moves across rolling terrain, skipping and jumping downhill towards the lunar module and kicking up dust as he goes. “Boy, is this fun!” he says, and this clip shows just how much fun it is.


EVA-2 Close-out

Journal Text: 149:24:53   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 50 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 149:27:37   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 21 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 149:31:00   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 1 second) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 149:33:58   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 13 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 149:37:04   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 13 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 149:40:12   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 7 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 149:43:15   RealVideo Clip: (1 minute 46 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 149:44:57   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 44 seconds) by Ken Glover


Loading the Rover for the EVA-3 Traverse

Journal Text: 165:51:08   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 1 second) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 165:54:07   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 58 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 165:57:02   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 47 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 165:59:44   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 20 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 166:01:59   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 44 seconds) by Ken Glover


Geology Station 11 at North Ray Crater

Journal Text: 166:47:44   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 13 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 166:51:11   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 10 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 166:54:17   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 13 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 166:57:25   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 21 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 166:57:55   QuickTime Clip: (1 minute 23 seconds; 1 MB)

As Young was heading down in the direction of House Rock he dropped his collection bag dispenser. As this clip begins, he has noticed it missing and is retracing his steps towards the rover to look for it, carrying a sample collection bag in his hand. When he finds the dispenser he bends to pick it up and, as he grabs it, he loses his footing and pitches forward onto his hands and knees exclaiming, “God damn it!” He regains his feet and continues towards the rover. CapCom Tony England interrupts him to ask if there is still something left on the ground behind him. Young turns, finds nothing, and continues uphill towards the camera. Throughout, we can hear Duke talking off-camera to Houston about the photographic panoramas he is performing.

Journal Text: 167:01:10   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 35 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 167:03:17   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 24 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 167:06:37   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 38 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 167:09:00   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 27 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 167:11:19   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 24 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 167:13:40   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 24 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 167:17:01   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 41 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 167:19:37   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 55 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 167:22:27   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 10 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 167:24:33   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 55 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 167:27:38   RealVideo Clip: (3 minutes 10 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 167:30:33   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 58 seconds) by Ken Glover

Journal Text: 167:33:14   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 44 seconds) by Ken Glover


House Rock

Journal Text: 167:36:03   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 55 seconds) by Ken Glover

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Station 13 at Shadow Rock

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Station 10 Prime

Journal Text: 169:18:37   RealVideo Clip: (2 minutes 55 seconds) by Ken Glover.

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EVA-3 Close-out

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VIP Site

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Return to Orbit

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