This is CBS, I Am The World, I'm John Bachelors, Hotel Mars, Episode An, my colleague and

co-host and friend David Livingston, Dr. Space of the Space Show is here, and we're headed

to the moon, also in a time machine to the moon. We're welcome to help us tell the story

of Apollo 16 in 1972. Rob Godwin, he is the publisher of R.C.G. publishing a number of

books about famous and unknown missions in Apollo land. This is the 20th century. Everything

was bigger and fresher and newer because I was, because David was. This is our youth,

but now looking back, there's a sentimental value to examining what happened with Apollo 16.

This was the penultimate mission to the moon by the Apollo program. The three astronauts

on board Apollo, John Young, he commanded the mission. Command Module was Tom Maddingley,

Thomas K. Maddingley the second, and the lunar module pilot was Charles M. Duke Jr., Charlie

Duke. Rob, a very good evening to you. You have spoken with, I believe, Commander Young,

the memory. I did. Hi, John. The memories of this mission are dim now here in the 21st century.

What was the mission profile? What was their challenge going to the moon? Good evening to

you. Good evening. Yeah. Well, I mean, the story is it was the fifth successful moon landing,

and we'd had Apollo 13 go awry in between, but they got to the point now where our science

was the main goal of going to the moon. Apollo 16 had about two dozen science experiments

to conduct. One of the other things that they had to do, one of the three main jobs they

had to do, of course, was to collect rocks. The other thing was to conduct in flight experiments

and take lots of photographs. So, you know, they went out there and did a lot of these experiments

on the way there, which included things like using an X-ray detector to look at things

like black holes, believe it or not. They were looking at the anomaly in sickness, the

sickness X-1 black hole at the time, and trying to take pictures of that and figure out what

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