Apollo 16 Launch by NASA on The Commons Via Flickr: The Apollo 16 Saturn V space vehicle carrying astronauts John W. Young, Thomas K. Mattingly II, and Charles M. Duke, Jr., lifted off to the Moon at 12:54 p.m. EST April 16, 1972, from the Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A. NASA Media Usage Guidelines Credit: NASA Image Number: 72PC-0177 Date: April 16, 1972













