(CBS) – On this day in history, April 16, 1972, the Apollo 16 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, Florida. Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke spent a record-breaking 71 hours on the moon.

On April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 launched to the moon! Apollo 16 was NASA's fifth lunar landing and the penultimate mission of the entire Apollo program. Three NASA astronauts were on board ...

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

Credit: British Museum, uploaded by Arienne King, World History, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Nearly everyone around the world knows the Olympic Games that began in ancient Greece, but who really knows what the ...

Imagine: you spent years training for a sojourn to the Moon, flew there on top of a Saturn V rocket as part of Apollo 16, to ultimately land on the lunar surface. You then spend the next few days ...

Hamish Kerr said he was "in shock" after winning the Olympic men's high jump on Saturday to take a rare athletics gold for New Zealand. Kerr tasted glory after a dramatic jump-off with American ...

ABOVE VIDEO: American Tara Davis-Woodhall claimed her first Olympic medal, winning the women’s high jump with a massive leap of 7.10 meters. Fellow U.S. athlete Jasmine Moore took bronze ...

Three Americans will try to get the podium in women's long jump final and dethrone defending Olympic champion Malaika Mihambo from Germany.

She's only 24, but she'll be gunning for her third Olympic team. She first made the Olympics in 2016 as a 16 year old ... 7 Men's High Jump Qualification (3:10 a.m.) Aug. 10 Men's High Jump ...