Typewritten in red ink, left center: AS16-113-1833 Typewritten in blue ink, paper verso, upper half: [1975 NASA logo faded] [blank space] Houston, Texas 77058 / National Aeronautics and / Space Administration / No copyright is asserted for this photograph. If a recognizable person appears in the photo, use for / commercial purposes may infringe a right of privacy / or publicity. It may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NASA or by any NASA employee of a commercial product, process or service, or / used in any other manner that might mislead. Accordingly, it is requested that if this photograph is used in advertising and other commercial promotion, / layout and copy be submitted to NASA prior to release. / COLOR / 21 APRIL 1972 [blank space] AS16-113-1833 / MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS / APOLLO 16 EVA PHOTO - - - Astronaut John W. Young, / commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, / leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes / the U.S. Flag at the Descartes landing site during the / first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity (EVA-1). / Astronaut Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, / took this picture. The Lunar Module (LM) “Orion” is on / the left. The Lunar Roving Vehicle is parked / beside the LM. The object behind Young in the / shade of the LM is the Far Ultraviolet / Camera/Spectrograph. Stone Mountain dominates / the background in this lunar scene. / pg. 13 Typewritten in blue ink, paper verso, lower left: PHOTO CREDIT: NASA or National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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