Charles Moss Duke, Jr.

Astronaut
Nationality	American
Born	3 October 1935 Charlotte, North Carolina
Occupation1	Test Pilot
Rank	Brigadier General, USAF
Space time	11d 01h 51m
Selection	1966 NASA Group
Mission(s)	Apollo 16
Mission insignia
1 previous or current

Charles Moss Duke, Jr. (born 3 October 1935), a retired USAF Brigadier General, was a United States astronaut for NASA. He is one of only twelve men who have walked on the moon. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (480x608, 81 KB) Official NASA portrait of Apollo 16 lunar module pilot Charles Moss Duke, Jr. ... October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nickname: The Queen City, Hornets Nest Location in Mecklenburg County in the state of North Carolina Coordinates: Country United States State North Carolina Counties Mecklenburg County, North Carolina  - Mayor Pat McCrory, (R) Area    - City 629. ... Test pilots are aviators who fly new and modified aircraft in specific maneuvers, allowing the results to be measured and the design to be evaluated. ... A Brigadier General, or one-star general, is the lowest rank of general officer in the United States and some other countries, ranking just above Colonel and just below Major General. ... Seal of the Air Force. ... NASAs Astronaut Group 5 (the Original 19) selected by NASA in April 1966. ... Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the Apollo program and the fifth mission to land on the Moon. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (779x775, 1047 KB)[1] File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Aircraft of the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing and coalition counterparts stationed together at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, in southwest Asia, fly over the desert. ... A Brigadier General, or one-star general, is the lowest rank of general officer in the United States and some other countries, ranking just above Colonel and just below Major General. ... For other uses, see Astronaut (disambiguation). ... NASA Logo Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-09-01, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ... Twenty-four astronauts have been on or near the Moon. ...

Duke is married to the former Dorothy Meade Claiborne, and has two sons, Charles III born in 1965 and Thomas born in 1967, and five grandchildren. He and his wife reside in New Braunfels, Texas. 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... Motto: friendship Location Government County Comal County Founded 1845 Mayor Bruce Boyer Geographical characteristics Area    - City 76. ...

Personal data

Duke was born in Charlotte, North Carolina on October 3, 1935. He married Dorothy Meade Clairborne of Atlanta, Georgia. They have two grown sons. Recreational interests include hunting, fishing, reading, and playing golf. Duke is an Eagle Scout and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America.^[1][2] Nickname: The Queen City, Hornets Nest Location in Mecklenburg County in the state of North Carolina Coordinates: Country United States State North Carolina Counties Mecklenburg County, North Carolina  - Mayor Pat McCrory, (R) Area    - City 629. ... October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Nickname: Hotlanta, The Big Peach, The ATL, A-Town Location in Fulton County in the state of Georgia Coordinates: Country United States State Georgia Counties Fulton, Dekalb  - Mayor Shirley Franklin (D) Area    - City 343. ... Hunter and Huntress redirect here. ... Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish by hooking, trapping, or gathering animals not classifiable as insects which breathe in water or pass their lives in water. ... Reading is a process of retrieving and comprehending some form of stored information or ideas. ... Greg Norman on the 18th tee at St Andrews. ... An Eagle Scout is a Scout with the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouts of America (BSA). ... The Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, is a special award, awarded only to Eagle Scouts, for distinguished service in his profession or to the community for a period of at least 25 years after earning his Eagle Scout rank. ... The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is a United States Scouting organization, with some presence in other countries. ...

Education

Duke attended Lancaster High School in Lancaster, South Carolina, and graduated as valedictorian from the Admiral Farragut Academy in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1953. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Naval Sciences from the United States Naval Academy in 1957 and a Master's degree in Aeronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1964. Lancaster is a city located in Lancaster County, South Carolina. ... In the United States and Canada, the title of valedictorian (an anglicized derivation from the Latin vale dicere, to say farewell) is given to the top graduate of the graduating class (compare dux) of an educational institution. ... Admiral Farragut Academy is a college preparatory school with Naval training founded in 1933 in Pine Beach, New Jersey. ... Nickname: Floridas Sunshine City Location of the city proper in the state of Florida Coordinates: Country United States State Florida County Pinellas County Founded 1876 Incorporated February 29, 1892 Mayor Rick Baker Area    - City 344. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... A Bachelor of Science (B.S., B.Sc. ... The United States Naval Academy (USNA) is an institution for the undergraduate education of officers of the United States Navy and Marine Corps and is in Annapolis, Maryland, near Washington D.C. The Academy often is referred to simply as Annapolis although naval officers normally refer to it in conversation... Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A masters degree is an academic degree usually awarded for completion of a postgraduate (or graduate) course of one to three years in duration. ... Six F-16 Fighting Falcons with the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds aerial demonstration team fly in delta formation in front of the Empire State Building. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private coeducational research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT has five schools and one college, containing 32 academic departments,[2] with a strong emphasis on theoretical, applied, and interdisciplinary scientific and technological research. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ...

In 1973, he was presented an honorary doctorate of Philosophy from the University of South Carolina. Duke also received an honorary doctorate of Humanities from Francis Marion University in 1990. 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... An honorary degree (Latin: honoris causa ad gradum, not to be confused with an honors degree) is an academic degree awarded to an individual as a decoration, rather than as the result of matriculating and studying for several years. ... For other uses, see Philosophy (disambiguation). ... An 1872 illustration of the Horseshoe, USCs original campus. ... The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view. ... Francis Marion University (also known as FMU or simply Francis Marion) is located in Florence, South Carolina. ... 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Experience

Duke was commissioned upon graduation from the Naval Academy in 1957. Entering the Air Force, he went to Spence Air Base in Georgia for primary flight training, then to Webb Air Force Base in Texas for basic flying training, where he graduated with distinction in 1958. Duke completed advanced training on the F-86 Sabre aircraft at Moody Air Force Base in Georgia, where he is a distinguished graduate. After completion of this training, Duke served three years as a fighter interceptor pilot with the 526th Fighter Interceptor Squadron at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. Webb Air Force Base was an Air Force facility that operated from 1951 to 1977 in west Texas near Big Spring. ... Official language(s) None See: Languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 268,581 sq mi (695,622 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ... The North American F-86 Sabre was a subsonic combat aircraft developed for the US Air Force. ... Moody Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located in Lowndes County, Georgia. ... The MiG-25 is a Russian interceptor that was the mainstay of the Soviet air defence. ... Boeing C-17A Lot XII Globemaster III Serial 00-0172 Spirit of the Cascades at the Ramstein cargo terminal. ...

He has logged 4,147 hours flying time, which includes 3,632 hours in jet aircraft.

NASA experience

Charlie Duke on lunar EVA, April 1972.

After graduating from the Aerospace Research Pilot School in September 1965, Duke stayed on as an instructor teaching control systems and flying in the F-101 Voodoo, F-104 Starfighter, and T-33 Shooting Star aircraft. In April 1966 he was one of the 19 selected for NASA's fifth group of astronauts. Download high resolution version (640x647, 483 KB)http://grin. ... Download high resolution version (640x647, 483 KB)http://grin. ... Astronaut Bruce McCandless on an untethered EVA Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) is work done by an astronaut away from the Earth and outside of his or her spacecraft. ... The U.S. Air Force Flight Test School is located on Edwards Air Force Base in California. ... The McDonnell F-101 Voodoo was a supersonic military aircraft flown by the USAF and the RCAF. Initially designed as a long-range bomber escort (known as a penetration fighter) for the Strategic Air Command, the Voodoo served in a variety of other roles, including the fighter bomber, all-weather... The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter is a high-performance supersonic interceptor aircraft, capable of high speeds and climb rates. ... The Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star (also designated the TO-1) is an American-built jet trainer. ...

In 1969 Duke was a member of the astronaut support crew for Apollo 10. He then served as capcom for Apollo 11, the first landing on the Moon, where his distinctive southern drawl became familiar to viewers around the world. As capcom, he became the voice of a Mission Control made nervous by a long landing that almost expended all of the lunar module Eagle's fuel. Duke's famous first words to the Apollo 11 crew on the surface of the moon were flustered "Roger, Twank...Tranquility, we copy you on the ground. You got a bunch of guys about to turn blue here. We're breathing again. Thanks a lot!" Duke was backup Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 13, however shortly before the mission he caught German measles from a friend's child and inadvertently exposed the prime crew to the disease. As Ken Mattingly had no natural immunity to the disease, Mattingly was then replaced as command module pilot by Jack Swigert. Ironically, Mattingly would be reassigned as command module pilot of Duke's flight, Apollo 16. Apollo 10 was the fourth manned mission in the Apollo program, and the first (and only manned Saturn V) mission to launch from pad 39B. The mission included the second crew to orbit the Moon, and the test of the lunar module in lunar orbit. ... During much of the U.S. manned space program, NASA felt it was important for all communication with the astronauts in space to pass through a single individual in the Mission Control Center. ... Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon. ... The Southern United States Red states show the core of the American South. ... During much of the U.S. manned space program, NASA felt it was important for all communication with the astronauts in space to pass through a single individual in the Mission Control Center. ... The LEM flight instrumentation panel and front windows. ... Apollo 13 was the third manned lunar-landing mission, part of the foundation of the American Apollo program. ... Rubella (also known as epidemic roseola, German measles or three-day measles) is a disease caused by the Rubella virus. ... The Command/Service Module (CSM) was a spacecraft built for NASA by North American Aviation. ... John Leonard Jack Swigert, Jr. ...

Duke served as lunar module pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972 where he and John W. Young landed at the Descartes Highlands and conducted three EVAs, making Duke the tenth man to walk upon the surface of the Moon. He also served as backup lunar module pilot for Apollo 17. Apollo 17 was the eleventh manned space mission in the NASA Apollo program and was the sixth and last manned mission to date to land on the Moon. ...

He logged 265 hours in space, plus 21 hours and 28 minutes of extra vehicular activity.

Space flight experience

Apollo 16 (April 16 – April 27, 1972) was launched from John F. Kennedy Space Center and was the fifth manned lunar landing mission. The crew consisted of John W. Young as spacecraft commander, Ken Mattingly as command module pilot, and Duke as lunar module pilot. Apollo 16 was the first scientific expedition to inspect, survey, and sample materials and surface features in the Descartes region of the rugged lunar highlands. Duke commenced the record setting lunar surface stay of 71 hours and 14 minutes by maneuvering the lunar module Orion to a landing on the rough Cayley Plains. In three subsequent excursions onto the lunar surface, he logged 20 hours and 15 minutes in extravehicular activities involving the emplacement and activation of scientific equipment and experiments, the collection of nearly 213 lb (96 kg) of rock and soil samples, and the evaluation and use of Rover-2 over the roughest and blockiest surface yet encountered on the moon. Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in the Apollo program and the fifth mission to land on the Moon. ... April 16 is the 106th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (107th in leap years). ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... Merritt Island and Kennedy Space Center (shown in white). ... John W. Young in 1986 John Watts Young (born September 24, 1930) is a former NASA astronaut who walked on the Moon on Apollo 16, April 21, 1972. ... Thomas Kenneth Ken Mattingly II, Rear Admiral, USN (retired) (born March 17, 1936) is an American astronaut who flew on the Apollo 16, STS-4, and STS-51-C missions. ... Descartes is a heavily-worn lunar crater that is located in the rugged south-central highlands of the Moon To the southwest is the Abulfeda crater. ... Astronaut Bruce McCandless on an untethered EVA Extra-vehicular activity (EVA) is work done by an astronaut away from the Earth and outside of his or her spacecraft. ... The pound (abbreviations: lb or, sometimes in the United States, #) is a unit of mass in a number of different systems, including various systems of units of mass that formed part of English units, Imperial units, and United States customary units. ... The U.S. National Prototype Kilogram, which currently serves as the primary standard for measuring mass in the U.S. It was assigned to the United States in 1889 and is periodically recertified and traceable to the primary international standard, The Kilogram, held at the Bureau International des Poids et...

Other Apollo 16 achievements included the largest payload placed in lunar orbit (76,109 lb or 34,595 kg); first cosmic ray detector deployed on the lunar surface; first lunar observatory with the far UV camera; and longest in-flight EVA from a command module during transearth coast (1 hour and 13 minutes). The Apollo 16 mission was concluded with a Pacific Ocean splashdown and subsequent recovery by the USS Ticonderoga. Cosmic rays can loosely be defined as energetic particles originating outside of the Earth. ... The solar corona as seen in deep ultraviolet light at 17. ... Atlantic splashdown locations of American spacecraft. ... The fourth USS Ticonderoga (CV-14/CVA-14/CVS-14) of the United States Navy was an aircraft carrier. ...

Duke portrayed in the movies

In the 1998 miniseries From the Earth to the Moon Duke was portrayed by J. Downing. From the Earth to the Moon is a twelve-part HBO television miniseries (1998) co-produced by Ron Howard, Brian Grazer, Tom Hanks, and Michael Bostick detailing the landmark Apollo expeditions to the Moon during the 1960s and early 1970s. ... J. Downing is an actor. ...

Trivia

Six months before Apollo 16, Duke had a vivid dream that he and crewmate John Young discovered mysterious rover tracks while riding across the lunar surface. They turned to follow the tracks and eventually came upon another rover upon which sat two unmoving, spacesuited figures. Duke lifted the reflective sun visor on one suit to discover his own face. The other figure proved to be Young's double. They took suit and rover samples at Mission Control's request, and subsequent testing proved them to be over 100,000 years old.^[3] A dream is the experience of envisioned images, sounds, or other sensations during sleep. ... John Watts Young (born September 24, 1930) is a former NASA astronaut who walked on the Moon on Apollo 16, April 21, 1972. ...

Duke has compared his walking on the moon to that of a "duck waddle," saying that John Young's moonwalking was much more graceful.

Special honors

• NASA Distinguished Service Medal
• JSC Certificate of Commendation in 1970
• Air Force Distinguished Service Medal with Oak leaf cluster
• Legion of Merit
• Air Force Command Pilot Astronaut Wings
• Society of Experimental Test Pilots' Iven C. Kincheloe Award of 1972
• American Astronautical Society Flight Achievement Award for 1972
• American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Haley Astronautics Award for 1973
• Fédération Aéronautique Internationale V.M. Komarov Diploma in 1973
• named South Carolina Man of the Year in 1973
• inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame in 1973
• presented the Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Eagle Scout Award in 1975.
• Texas Science Hall of Fame in 2000

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Organizations

• NASA Advisory Council, At Large Member 1998-2000
• Air Force Association
• Society of Experimental Test Pilots
• Reserve Officer Association
• USNA Alumni Association
• Full Gospel Businessmen's Fellowship
• Christian Businessmen's Committee
• International Fellowship of Christian Businessmen
• Explorers Club
• National Space Society
• Young Astronaut Council, Former Director

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References

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External links

• Official NASA biography 12/1994
• Moonwalker by Charlie & Dotty Duke, published by Thomas Nelson Inc, April 1990, ISBN 0-8407-9106-2
• Official website of Charlie Duke
• Spacefacts biography of Charles Moss Duke, Jr.

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