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Apollo 16

Space mission
Apollo 16 was the tenth crewed mission in the United States Apollo space program, administered by NASA, and the fifth and penultimate to land on the Moon. It was the second of Apollo's "J missions", with an extended stay on the lunar surface, a... Wikipedia
Dates: Apr 16, 1972 – Apr 27, 1972
Landing site: the Descartes highlands region
Callsign: CSM: Casper; LM: Orion
Crew size: 3
Distance driven: 26.7 kilometers (16.6 mi)
EVAs: 1 in cislunar space to retrieve film cassettes
Members: John W. Young; Thomas K. Mattingly II; Charles M. Duke Jr.