Apollo 16 Lunar Landing – From PDI To Touchdown

It was about 7PM Central time on April 20th, 1972 that Apollo 16 crew members John Young and Charlie Duke landed in the Descartes plains as part of the Apollo 16 mission. This video explains the general process of the Apollo Lunar Module actually landing on the moon, and contains video and audio of the actual Apollo 16 landing along with notations and explanations on what is going on, and terminology used.

To those of us who really know and love space travel, a video like this, as detailed as it is, while still being in real time, with the corrected landing footage, is just awesome. To the average person, perhaps this will shed some new light on just why some of us still love the golden age of space travel as much as we do.

Enough talk, enjoy the video of Apollo 16 landing on the Moon.

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