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Taken by the RCA TV camera mounted on the Lunar Rover and operated by Ed Fendell at Mission Control

TV picture of John Young collecting lunar samples at station 5

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 2, 145:17:02 GET

Unpublished photograph, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), stamped “RCA Astro-Electronics 72-4-566” on the verso (NASA / RCA)

593 b
Charles Duke

John Young at the back of the Lunar Rover, station 6

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 2, 146:11:10 GET

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “NASA AS16-108-17622” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin

593 c
Charles Duke

John Young collecting lunar soil near the Lunar Rover, station 6

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 2, 146:18:18 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “NASA AS16-108-17629” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin

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John Young

Lunar boulder, scoop and tongs, station 6

Apollo 16, April 16-27, 1972, EVA 2, 146:22:40 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS16-107-17525” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

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Young is using the rake to collect lunar samples in a small crater in front of the gnomon in this B&W reproduction from a color TV transmission.

145:16:13 Young: Let me get the rake sample, Charlie. [...]
145:16:21 Duke: We could go out to... Okay, go ahead, pick a place. I’ll get the gnomon. You going to get it? Okay.
145:16:39 Duke: [...] We seem to be on a bench here that’s about 50 meters wide, and the slope here on the bench is only about 2 degrees - maybe 3 or 4 degrees - maybe 10. No, about 5 degrees, I’d say. And...
145:17:02 Young: Houston, here’s about a foot-and-a-half across secondary (crater)...(correcting himself) looks like a primary (crater)- that cut into the upper rim of this 10- or 20-meter - yeah - this 20-meter secondary. How about sampling out of the wall of that one?

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A frame from the panoramic sequence taken at station 6 located at the base of Stone Mountain
on the Cayley Plain. John Young, looking toward Stone Mountain (left background), is giving Mission Control a reading of his oxygen supply and joking about orange juice.

“On the inside of our suits, we had a drink bag velcroed to our liquid-cooled garment to give us
something to drink on the surface,” recalled Duke. “In orbit, these leaky bags had caused a problem so that’s what John is kidding about” (Constantine, p. 104).

146:11:10 Duke: We only got 20 minutes here. I’ll start the pan.
146:11:15 Young: Okay. (Pause)
146:11:20 England (Mission Control): And, John, we’ll need an EMU (Extravehicular Mobil Unit) check.
146:11:26 Young: Okay. I’m reading 3.85 (pause) and no flags. (Pause)
146:11:43 Young: Every time I read my oxygen gauge, (laughing) I get an earful of orange juice.
146:11:48 Duke: Yeah, mine, too.

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Young is using the scoop to collect a sample of white soil near the Lunar Rover. The tongs in the foreground provide scale in the picture. Stone Mountain is in the background.

“Sampling by scoop was the main way we obtained the large numbers of small samples that provide good statistical information about the composition of the surface,” noted Apollo 17 astronaut HarrisonSchmitt (NASA SP-350, p. 275).

146:17:17 Young: What’s that right over there, Charlie?
146:17:18 Duke: It’s a really a unique white-looking something-or-other.
146:17:23 Young: Yeah. Let’s see what that is. (Pause)
146:17:32 Duke: I think it’s soil. (Pause)
146:17:40 Young: Well, you want to get some of it? It’s unusual soil, if it is.
146:17:45 Duke: It might have been just a little...Yeah, it looks like a little teeny impact, doesn’t it? (Pause) Hey, let’s get a quick one and then go on up here and get some of these blocks on the upper rim.
146:18:02 Young: Okay. [...]
146:18:12 Duke: Run around and get a locator. (Pause)
146:18:18 Duke: Boy, this one-sixth gravity is so neat!

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The scoop and the tongs stuck into the ground nicely frame a boulder to provide a scale and a shadow in the picture. A fragment that Young broke off the boulder is lying on the surface beyond the boulder at center.

146:22:19 Duke: Hey, that’s a great rock! Look at that!! (Standing) I’m sorry we didn’t get it
documented before, Tony, but that is a good sample. It’s a...I think it’s a crystalline rock. Just a minute...
146:22:32 England (Mission Control): Okay, let’s go ahead and document it now. ...
146:22:33 Duke: ...let me look at it.
146:22:34 England: ...We’ll get the location of the one that’s still in place (meaning the boulder). It didn’t look like it moved.
146:22:40 Young: No, he didn’t move anything there. I’m gonna do an up-Sun (photograph) on this documentation.