The youngest man ever to walk on the Moon came one fall away from never making it home.
In this Starmus keynote, Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke relives his three days on the lunar surface alongside commander John Young: the violent ride up on the Saturn V, a landing where craters stayed hidden until the final seconds, and the geological discovery that stunned the very scientists who had trained him for years. He also describes the moment a jump for a Moon high jump record nearly turned fatal, and reveals what the Moon actually smells like, a mystery no one has fully explained to this day.
Stay to the end for the dust that nearly stopped them from getting back into the spacecraft.
About Starmus: Starmus is the international festival that unites Nobel laureates, astronauts, and the world’s greatest scientific and musical minds to celebrate science and the cosmos. Co-founded by astrophysicist Garik Israelian and Queen guitarist Brian May, Starmus has brought figures from Stephen Hawking to Buzz Aldrin to its stage.
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