Lunar Crash Site Found
On April 23rd, 1972 Apollo 16 left the Moon’s surface to return to Earth. The craft was lifted off of the surface by S-IVB, the third booster of the Saturn V. The fifty-eight foot engine consisted of a J2 engine, liquid hydrogen, and liquid oxygen tanks. That booster was then crashed onto the moon surface to measure seismic activity on the moon surface. However, before impact NASA lost track of its position and it has been lost ever since, until today.
43 years later a Johns Hopkins University physicist and geologist, Jeff Plescia, found the crash site from high-res images from the NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. He said it matched other crash sites but its position was poorly defined before now.
