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آپولو ۱۶
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fifth Moon landing and tenth crewed flight of the United States Apollo program
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Apollo 16 was the fifth mission to land humans on the Moon as part of the U.S. Apollo program. It represents a significant achievement in space exploration during the era when America was intensively exploring the lunar surface.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Apollo program
- Official name
- Apollo 16
- Country
- United States
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- Apollo 17
- Follows
- Apollo 15
- Duration
- 957065
- Mass
- 5440.8
- Image
- John W. Young on the Moon.jpg
- Significant event
- splashdown
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- Commons gallery
- Apollo 16
- Commons category
- Apollo 16
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1972-04-16
- space launch vehicle
- Saturn V
- crew members
- Charles Duke
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- 1972-04-27
- location of landing
- Pacific Ocean
- type of orbit
- lunar orbit
- periapsis
- 20.2
- apoapsis
- 108.3
- orbits completed
- 64
- recovered by
- USS Ticonderoga
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- topic's main category
- Category:Apollo 16
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