{"id":4140,"date":"2026-04-16T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4140"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:29:22","slug":"apollo-16-was-launched-in-1972","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4140","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 16 Was Launched in 1972"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25538\" style=\"width: 259px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25538\" class=\"wp-image-25538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Apollo-16-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"249\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-25538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Apollo 16 on the Moon<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Apollo 16 was launched in 1972<\/strong>. The fifth group to land on the moon, John Young, Charles M. Duke, Jr., and Thomas K. Mattingly made the 11-day trip, exploring the moon for 71 hours. Among their activities, they launched a satellite that would circle the moon. However, it was sent into an orbit that was not stable. The satellite crashed into the moon\u2019s surface on May 29, 1972. Children could learn more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/solarsystem.nasa.gov\/missions\/apollo-16\/in-depth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apollo 16<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apollo 16 was launched in 1972. The fifth group to land on the moon, John Young, Charles M. Duke, Jr., and Thomas K. Mattingly made the 11-day trip, exploring the moon for 71 hours. Among their activities, they launched a satellite that would circle the moon. However, it was sent into an orbit that was <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4140' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4426,2582,5477,2583,2523,175,2584],"class_list":["post-4140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4426","tag-apollo-16","tag-april-16","tag-charles-m-duke","tag-john-young","tag-jr","tag-thomas-k-mattingly","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4140"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29692,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4140\/revisions\/29692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}