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Apollo 16
Flight/Commemorative Covers

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Apollo 16, (AS-511) FACTS:

APOLLO 16 was the fifth lunar landing flight. A Lunar Roving Vehicle was used for the second time on the Moon to transport the astronauts. It traversed over 16 miles on the Moon, exploring the highlands of Descartes. Over 200 pounds of Moon rocks were collected on this flight by Astronauts Duke and Young.
Significant dates of the Apollo 16 flight:

04/16/1972 Launch date

04/20/1972 Moon Landing date

04/21/1972 Lunar Rover on the Moon

04/23/1972 Moon Liftoff date

04/27/1972 Splashdown date

The Apollo 16 astronauts were:

John W. Young, Commander

Thomas K. Mattingly II, Command Module Pilot

Charles M. Duke, Jr., Lunar Module Pilot

Other Flight Facts:

Date of flight: April 16-27, 1972

Landing site: Descartes Highlands. The first study of highlands area.

Selected surface experiments were deployed, ultraviolet camera/spectrograph was used for first time on the Moon

The Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) was used for the second time.

Lunar surface stay-time, 71 hours.

In lunar orbit 126 hours, with 64 orbits.

Mattingly performed 1 hour in-flight EVA (Space Walk).

95.8 kg (213 pounds) of lunar samples were collected.

Duration of the flight: 11 days, 1 hour, 51 minutes.

The name given to the Command Module was "Casper".

The name given to the Lunar Module was "Orion".

General Notes

All items are covers unless otherwise noted.
All covers are the standard U.S. #6 size (approximately 6 1/2 x 3 3/4 inches), as collected in the USA, unless otherwise noted.
Foreign covers may be slightly smaller in size than the standard U.S. #6 size and if so, their size will NOT be noted. Any cover larger than a number 6 size will be noted or any item of an unordinary size will be so noted.
All covers are unaddressed unless otherwise noted.
All covers are cacheted unless otherwise noted. A brief description of the cachet is given of the event being commemorated.
If covers are autographed they are genuine, unless otherwise noted.
Where stamp(s) used on the item are of significance, such as being a space stamp or a flag stamp or related to the event or location, it will be described. Otherwise the stamp(s) used on the item may be a definitive issue or an unrelated commemorative issue, and will not be described.
Items listed here may not be listed in any particular order.
Please print out the ON-LINE ORDER FORM and use it to mark down the covers you need. When ordering, please mark the LIST ID as well as ITEM ID.

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Price List

LIST ID

ITEM ID

PRICE

CANCEL DATE

CANCEL LOC

AP16AA	0500	$5.50	12/13/1971	K
APOLLO 16 ROLLOUT, with a space pictorial machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a 11 cent airmail stamp. With a orange and blue/gray CYGNUS #12 printed cachet showing the Saturn/Apollo 16 being rolled out to the launch pad, with text: "Apollo 16 Moonship Rollout. The first step of a million mile journey to the Moon's Decartes Highlands." Airmail border envelope.

AP16AA	2000	$3.00	04/16/1972	K
APOLLO 16 LAUNCH, with space pictorial machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on 13 cent JFK stamp, with blue and red rubber stamp cachet (unidentified), showing large Apollo 16 emblem and word rubber stamp text "Apollo 16 Destination Moon". Airmail border envelope with rubber stamp address.

AP16AA	2005	$4.50	04/16/1972	K
APOLLO 16 LAUNCH, with a space pictorial machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a 11 cent airmail stamp. With a blue and red CYGNUS #19 printed cachet showing Apollo 16 spacecraft separating from the Saturn rocket, with text: "Apollo 16, Astronauts John Young, Ken Mattingly and Charles Duke thunder away from planet Earth to Cayley Plain in the Lunar highlands.." Airmail border envelope. The cachet also notes that this is the first day of use of new KSC machine die.

AP16AA	2025	$4.00	04/16/1972	SB
APOLLO 16 LAUNCH, with a hand cancel of Satellite Beach FL on a 8 cent Apollo Lunar Rover stamp (#1435). With a two color LUNAR VOYAGE printed cachet of the launch and showing busts of the 3 Apollo 16 astronauts with their names, with text that reads in part: "Apollo 16 Leaves for Descartes Region. Perfect launch from Pad 39A, KSC........"

AP16AA	3700	$4.50	04/20/1972	K
APOLLO 16 DELAY IN MOON LANDING, with a space pictorial machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a 11 cent airmail stamp. With a blue and orange CYGNUS #20 printed cachet showing Apollo 16 spacecraft and the lunar module in orbit over the Moon, with text: "Command Ship Casper thrust vector control system aborts circularization burn and delays Moon Landing." Airmail border envelope.

AP16AA	3800	$3.00	04/20/1972	C
APOLLO 16, LUNAR MODULE DESCENDS TO THE MOON , with a machine cancel of Cape Canaveral FL, the cancel falls on a 10 cent First Man on Moon stamp (#C76) but is still readable, with a red circle WHITNEY rubber stamp cachet (unidentified), showing astronauts in the Lunar Module (nicknamed Orion) and word text: "Apollo 16, Orion Descends to Moon, with John W. Young, Charles M. Duke, April 30, 1972".

AP16AA	4000	$3.00	04/20/1972	C
APOLLO 16 MOONLANDING, with a machine cancel of Cape Canaveral FL on a Moon Rover space stamp and (#1435), with a round black WHITNEY rubber stamp cachet (unidentified), showing a drawing of the Apollo 16 Lunar Module "Orion" on the surface of the Moon. With word text: "Apollo 16 Moonlanding John W. Young, Commander; Charles M. Duke Jr., Lunar Module Pilot, in the ORION April 20, 1972".

AP16AA	4005	$4.00	04/20/1972	SB
APOLLO 16 MOONLANDING, with a hand cancel of Satellite Beach FL on a 8 cent Apollo Lunar Rover stamp (#1435). With a two color LUNAR VOYAGE printed cachet of the Lunar Rover on the Moon, and showing busts of the 3 Apollo 16 astronauts with their names, with text: "Apollo 16 Orion lands at Descartes 9:23 pm EST, April 20th, Young & Duyke explore Descartes area in 3 rides, obtain rock samples and activate experiments."

AP16AA	4015	$6.00	04/20/1972	C
APOLLO 16 MOONLANDING, with a machine cancel of Cape Canaveral FL on Moon Rover space stamp (#1435), with a two color SPACE CRAFT COVERS CACHETS printed cachet (by Swanson), for this event, showing drawing of manned Lunar Rover Vehicle exploring the moon, and appropriate text. With small one line printed address, (which is customary for this cachetmakers covers). Cover comes with filler card about the Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV). IMAGE

AP16AA	4400A	$4.00	04/21/1972	DBL
APOLLO 16 SCARCE DOUBLE-CANCELLED COVER, with a pictorial hand cancel of Vienna Austria, April 21, 1972, of the Apollo 16 emblem on an Austrian stamp which is applied to a U.S. Apollo 15 first day cover! This cover has a pair of the 8-cent "United States in Space, A Decade of achievement" stamps (#1434-1435) on envelope and with a first day of issue machine cancel of Houston TX of 08/02/1971. No cachet needed on this cover. Only a few prepared this way.

AP16AA	4400B	$3.00	04/21/1972	F
APOLLO 16 SPECIAL PICTORIAL CANCEL, AUSTRIA COMMEMORATIVE COVER, With a large pictorial hand cancel of Wien (Vienna) showing the Apollo 16 emblem on any of various Austria single stamps. With two color printed cachet showing two astronauts sitting in the Lunar Rover, with a smaller Apollo 17 emblem in the corner of the cachet. Cachet text of 3 lines is in German for the Apollo 16 flight. Cover size 4-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches. (The April 21, 1972 date is when the Apollo 16 astronauts explored the Moon with the Lunar Rover). IMAGE

AP16AA	4400C	$3.00	04/21/1972	F
APOLLO 16 SPECIAL PICTORIAL CANCEL, AUSTRIA COMMEMORATIVE COVER, With a large pictorial hand cancel of Wien (Vienna) showing the Apollo 16 emblem on any of various Austria single stamps. With two color printed cachet showing an astronaut looking out of the spacecraft window at another astronaut doing a space walk and also a Gemini spacecraft linking up with an Agena rocket. Cachet text is in German: "Weltraum u. Philatelie. Sonderpoststempel". Cover size 4-1/2 x 6-1/2 inches. (The April 21, 1972 date is when the Apollo 16 astronauts explored the Moon with the Lunar Rover).

AP16AA	4605	$4.00	04/23/1972	P
APOLLO 16 MOON LIFTOFF, with a machine cancel of Patrick Air Force Base FL on a 8 cent Apollo Lunar Module stamp (#1434). With a two color LUNAR VOYAGE printed cachet of the Lunar Module lifting off the Moon and the Rover left behind, and showing busts of the 3 Apollo 16 astronauts with their names, with text that reads in part: "Apollo 16, Moon Liftoff, complete ascent covered by TV, leaves Moon with 213 lbs. of rocks, ......"

AP16AA	4610	$4.00	04/23/1972	SB
APOLLO 16 MOON LIFTOFF, with a hand cancel of Satellite Beach FL on a 8 cent Apollo Lunar Module stamp (#1434). With a two color LUNAR VOYAGE printed cachet of the Lunar Module lifting off the Moon and the Rover left behind, and showing busts of the 3 Apollo 16 astronauts with their names, with text that reads in part: "Apollo 16, Moon Liftoff, complete ascent covered by TV, leaves Moon with 213 lbs. of rocks, ......"

AP16AA	6000	$4.00	04/27/1972	P
APOLLO 16 SPLASHDOWN, with a machine cancel of Patrick Air Force Base FL on a 8 cent Apollo Lunar Module stamp. With a two color LUNAR VOYAGE printed cachet of the helicopter recovery of the Apollo capsule, and showing busts of the 3 Apollo 16 astronauts with their names, with text that reads in part: "Apollo 16, Splashdown, Bull's eye landing, frogman descends to capsule, recovered by USS Ticonderoga......"

AP16AA	6005	$4.50	04/27/1972	K
APOLLO 16 SPLASHDOWN, with a space pictorial machine cancel of Kennedy Space Center FL on a 11 cent airmail stamp. With a blue and orange CYGNUS #24 printed cachet showing Apollo 16 spacecraft in the water being recovered by a helicopter, with text: "Apollo 16 astronauts 'super' on pacific splashdown. Young, Duke & Mattingly return from man's longest Lunar mission with a record 245 pounds of Moon rocks." Airmail border envelope.

DB: 04/23/2008 15:10:47 tusd(30,16,14,0)

See other Apollo 16 Covers at
Apollo 16 Tracking Station Covers
Apollo 7 - 17 Commemorative Flight Covers, "Orbit" Engraved Printed Cachets.
Apollo 7 - 17 Commemorative Flight Covers, "Orbit" Color Printed Cachets.

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