Apollo 16 Lunar Rover "Grand Prix" [1972 April 21, Moon] On this day in 1972, astronaut John W. Young gave the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) a speed test during Apollo 16’s first moonwalk at the Descartes Highlands — earning the nickname “Grand Prix” run. 🏁🌕 It was a planned experiment to test the rover’s performance at “high” speeds — about 6 mph (10 km/h)! 📸 Captured on 16mm film by Astronaut Charles Duke, who joined Young on the surface while Astronaut Thomas Mattingly orbited above in Comman

🚗💨 Lunar Grand Prix, Apollo-style! On this day in 1972, astronaut John W. Young gave the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) a speed test during Apollo 16’s first moonwalk at the Descartes Highlands — earning the nickname “Grand Prix” run. 🏁🌕 It was a planned experiment to test the rover’s performance at “high” speeds — about 6 mph (10 km/h)! 📸 Captured on 16mm film by Astronaut Charles Duke, who joined Young on the surface while Astronaut Thomas Mattingly orbited above in Command Module “Casper. We

The Flight Of Apollo 7 (1968)

🚨 A heated moment in the moon-landing debate — Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke finally confronts Bart Sibrel, and it gets intense FAST. This clip highlights one of the most explosive conversations in the entire Moon-landing controversy. Duke was literally on the lunar surface in 1972. Sibrel has spent decades calling it a hoax. When these two collide… you feel the tension instantly. Whether you believe NASA’s official story or think something still isn’t adding up — moments like this show how