NASA Photo ID: AS16-113-18339      File Name: 10075832.jpg
Film Type: 70mm                    Date Taken: 04/20/72
Title: Astronaut John Young leaps from lunar surface to salute flag
Description:
Astronaut John W. Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, 
leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the U.S. Flag at the Descartes 
landing site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity (EVA-1). 
Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, took this picture. The 
Lunar Module (LM) "Orion" is on the left. The Lunar Roving Vehicle is
parked  beside the LM. The object behind Young in the shade of the LM is
the Far  Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph. Stone Mountain dominates the
background in  this lunar scene.              

Subject terms:
APOLLO 16 FLIGHT                        
APOLLO PROJECT                          
ASTRONAUTS                              
EXTRAVEHICULAR ACTIVITY                 
FLAGS                                   
LUNAR EXPLORATION                       
LUNAR LANDING SITES                     
LUNAR MODULE                            
LUNAR PHOTOGRAPHY                       
LUNAR ROVING VEHICLES                   
LUNAR SURFACE                           
SPACEBORNE EXPERIMENTS                  

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