The spacecraft, named Faith 7, piloted by astronaut Gordon Cooper completed 22
Earth orbits traveling 593,885 miles in 34 hours, 20 minutes. The mission was to
determine the effects of extended spaceflight on man. The spacecraft and with
its pilot was recovered only 36 minutes after splashdown in the Pacific Ocean.
Cooper is assisted in backing out of his spacecraft after splashdown
Onboard are astronauts John Young (CDR), Ken Mattingly (CMP) and Charlie Duke (lmp)
Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the Apollo space program, the fifth and
to land on the Moon and the first to land in the lunar highlands. The mission lasted eleven days, one hour, and fifty-one minutes, and concluded at 2:45 PM EST on
April 27
Apollo 13 crew from left: Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise, Command Module
Pilot Jack Swigert, and Commander James Lovell.
The Medal of Freedom
The Apollo 13 astronauts receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Richard Nixon
