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LAUNCHED ON THIS DAY IN 1972


The Apollo 16 crew: Thomas K. Mattingly II, command module pilot;
John W. Young, commander; and Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module
pilot.

Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the United States Apollo space program,
the fifth and next to the last to land on the Moon and the first to land in the lunar highlands. The second of the so-called "J missions," was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:54 PM EST. The mission lasted 11 days, 1 hour, and
51 minutes, and concluded at 2:45 PM EST on April 27, 1972.

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MIKE GRACIA


Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945)

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Apollo 13 crew from left: Fred Haise, Jack Swigert, and James Lovell. 


James Arthur "Jim" Lovell, Jr. became 88 in March.


Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. turned 82 in November.


John Leonard "Jack" Swigert, Jr.
(August 30, 1931 – December 27, 1982)


Swiger died of respiratory failure due to cancer.

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