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Astronauts being recovered from the sea, Apollo 16 mission, 27 April 1972. Prime recovery helicopter hovering over the Apollo 16 spacecraft after splashdown, 11 days after launch. Apollo 16 was the tenth manned mission in NASA's Apollo space program - the crew were John Young, Charles Duke and Ken Mattingly. Young and Duke spent 71 hours on the lunar surface. They were recovered from the Pacific Ocean by USS 'Ticonderoga'.