APOLLO 16. Astronaut John W.YOUNG, Commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, leaps from the lunar surface as he salutes the US flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 extra vehicular activity.Astronaut Charles M DUKE Jr, lunar module pilot, took this photo.The Lunar Module ORION is on the left.The lunar Roving vehicle is parked beside the LM.The object behind John YOUNG in the shade of the LM is the Far Ultraviolet Camera/spectrograph.Stone Mountain dominates the background in the lunar scene.
photo courtesy of NASA.