Apollo 16 moonwalk. Astronaut John Young salutes the flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity (EVA-1). Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, jumps up from the lunar surface as astronaut and Air Force veteran, Charles M. Duke Jr., lunar module pilot, took this picture. A unique optimised NASA image (with added black vertical space above original square image): Credit: NASA

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Location: Lunar Surface, the Moon
Photo credit: © NASA / digitaleye / Alamy / Afripics
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