photo-as16-113-18282, NASA Apollo program
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AS16-113-18282 (23 April 1972) --- The Apollo Command and Service Modules (CSM) ?Casper? approaches the Lunar Module (LM) ?Orion?, from which this photograph was made. The two spacecraft are about to make their final rendezvous of the mission, on April 23, 1972. Astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke Jr. aboard the LM, were returning to the CSM, in lunar orbit, after three successful days on the lunar surface. Astronaut Thomas K. (Ken) Mattingly II, command module pilot, remained with the CSM in lunar orbit, while Young and Duke descended in the LM to explore the Descartes region of the Moon.
NASA Identifier: HSF-photo-as16-113-18282
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