Capture Date: 2012-04-14T00:00:00Z
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Apollo 8 Command Module Pilot and Apollo 13 Commander Jim Lovell addresses the audience at the 40th anniversary celebration of Apollo 16’s lunar landing, which occurred April 20, 1972. The Astronaut Scholarship Foundation hosted the soiree at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex’s Saturn V Center. The 11-day Apollo 16 mission featured three moonwalks, including a nearly 17-mile lunar rover road trip to collect more than 200 pounds of moon rocks to return to Earth. Photo credit: NASA/Chris Chamberland