Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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While history records Apollo 16 as a successful lunar landing, the mission was nearly aborted just eight miles above the surface. Follow the journey of John Young, Charlie Duke, and Ken Mattingly—the astronaut who missed the ill-fated Apollo 13 due to a measles exposure only to face his own life-or-death crisis in lunar orbit.

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