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A St. Petersburg school holds a special place in space history — it's the alma mater of not just one, but two of the 12 Apollo ... Olympics." He says, "So we decided to do the high jump.

As part of Apollo 16 in April 1972 ... John and I were going to do the Lunar Olympics and set the high-jump record. When I jumped, I fell over backwards. And that was scary because the backpack ...

The Apollo 16 astronaut served as the ... we decided to do the Moon Olympics,” Duke said. The events were the high jump and the long jump. “With all of my equipment on, I weighed 363 pounds ...