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Posted on June 13, 2018

Targeted for touchdown on the third lunar landing was a place known as the Fra Mauro range, a stretch of rugged, Appalachian-type mounds 110 miles east of the Apollo 12 landing site.

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Posted on June 20, 2018

Just before the mission began things started to go wrong. The weekend before launch Charlie Duke, the backup lunar module pilot, came down with a case of German measles.

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Posted on November 18, 2020

“cogito, ergo sum” (I think, therefore I am). Rene Descartes. Descartes Landing SiteApollo 16 Crew: Mattingly, Young, Duke

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Posted on December 2, 2020

“Roger, Twank…Tranquility, we copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue. We’re breathing again. Thanks a lot!,” Capcom Charlie Duke, Apollo 11 landing. Midshipman DukeDuke Salutes the FlagDuke’s Family Portrait Left on the M...

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Posted on January 6, 2021

T-90 seconds and all Charlie Duke could think about was let’s go! There was no fear, no reluctance, no second thoughts. He was consumed with the desire to hear the words Lift-off.  He felt this was his one and only chance. Suiting UpLeaving for the ...

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