“The first day I had trouble sleeping the night before, because I was so excited that we were going to get to crack open the capsule,” U.S. Space & Rocket Center archivist Rebecca Hitt said ...

The Apollo 16 capsule is dusty all these decades after it carried three astronauts to the moon. Cobwebs cling to the spacecraft. Business cards, a pencil, money, a spoon and even a tube of lip ...

Mattingly, a key commander during the Apollo 16 mission to the moon ... real-time decisions to successfully bring home the wounded spacecraft and the crew of Apollo 13," Nelson said in the ...

As the Apollo 13 spacecraft was approaching the moon ... Sponsor Message Mattingly got his chance to fly to the moon on Apollo 16. As John Young and Charlie Duke walked on the lunar surface ...

The capsule also passed over the landing sites of Apollo 12 and 14 ... Orion blasted off Nov. 16 on the debut flight of NASA’s most powerful rocket ever, the Space Launch System or SLS.

Astronaut Thomas "Ken" Mattingly, who orbited the moon on NASA's Apollo 16 mission and narrowly missed ... avoiding the massive explosion that crippled the spacecraft as it neared the moon.

Mattingly, a key commander during the Apollo 16 mission to the moon ... which narrowly avoided tragedy when its spacecraft malfunctioned and had to return to Earth without landing on the moon.