Moon Walking: Giant Steps Are What You Take

Astronaut Charlie Duke is one of the 19 astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966, and went on to serve in 5 different Apollo missions to the Moon:

• member of the astronaut support crew for the Apollo 10
• CAPCOM for Apollo 11, the first manned landing on the Moon
• backup lunar module pilot on Apollo 13
• lunar module pilot on Apollo 16
• backup lunar module pilot on Apollo 17

As lunar module pilot of Apollo 16 (April 16-27, 1972) Mr. Duke was accompanied on the fifth manned lunar mission by John W. Young (spacecraft commander) and Thomas K. Mattingly II (command module pilot).

In December 1975, Duke retired from NASA to enter private business in San Antonio. He entered the USAF Reserves in 1975 and served as Mobilization Augmentee to Commander AF Basic Military Training Center and to Commander USAF Recruiting Service. He was promoted to Brigadier General in 1979 and retired in June, 1986. Since 1976, Mr. Duke has been involved in a wide variety of business and is currently a public speaker of international renown on topics that range from delivering under pressure, to team preparedness and space exploration.