Lunar Module pilot Charles Duke saluting the US flag during Apollo 16. (Credit: NASA) Imagine: you spent years training for a sojourn to the Moon, flew there on top of a Saturn V rocket as part of ...

Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke, left, and space shuttle veteran Nicole Stott speak during a ceremony at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025.

He piloted Apollo 16 and commanded the shuttle. But he may be best known for the mission he didn't fly: the ill-fated Apollo 13. And he worried late in life about the high cost of human space flight.

NASA, April 16, 2022, 50 Years Ago: Apollo 16 on the Moon at Descartes; NASA, updated Feb. 22, Thomas K. Mattingly II; NASA (via Flickr), Feb. 6, 1972, Apollo 16 Astronauts Train for Lunar Landing ...

A one-of-a-kind tool used on the NASA Apollo 16 mission in the 1970s is up for grabs to the highest bidder. The tool is expected to go for over $750,000.

"It's remarkable to think that the samples Apollo 16 brought back more than half a century ago still have secrets to reveal about the moon's history, and that they could yet help shape how we ...

NASA astronaut Ken Mattingly, who orbited the moon during the Apollo 16 mission, has died. He was 87. The space agency confirmed Mattingly died on Tuesday.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Astronaut Thomas "Ken" Mattingly, who orbited the moon on NASA's Apollo 16 mission and narrowly missed the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, died Tuesday at age 87, NASA said.

Thomas K. Mattingly, a key commander during the Apollo 16 mission to the moon, died at age 87, NASA announced Thursday. Mattingly, known as Ken or T.K., died on Oct. 31, NASA confirmed in a statement.

Thomas K. Mattingly II, a NASA astronaut who helped bring Apollo 13 home, is dead at 87. Mattingly II died on Tuesday, Oct. 31, according to a press release from NASA. NASA selected him as an ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Astronaut Thomas "Ken" Mattingly, who orbited the moon on NASA's Apollo 16 mission and narrowly missed the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission, died Tuesday at age 87, NASA said.