The Apollo 16 mission to the Moon, John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charlie Duke, was America's fifth manned lunar landing, and the first to land in the desolate lunar highlands. Using a lunar rover, Young and Duke spent almost three days exploring the region, making geological discoveries that completely revised scientific thinking about the highlands. In the meantime, Mattingly carried out a mission of lunar mapping and scientific readings from lunar orbit. John Young and Charlie Duke are two of only 12 astronauts who walked on the moon, of which only four are still living as of April 2025, including Duke (Apollo 16), Buzz Aldrin (Apollo 11), Dave Scott (Apollo 15) and Harrison "Jack" Schmitt (Apollo 17). Young passed away on January 5, 2018 at the age of 87.
Inducted in 2013.
Portrait Location: Space Gallery

Induction Video