Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke took this photo of a picture of his family left on the surface of the moon in 1972. (Charles Duke/NASA) But the surface temperature on the moon was about 210 ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Back in 1972, South Carolina’s own Charles Duke became the youngest person to walk on the moon’s surface. Fast forward to today, and Duke still holds that title. His career ...

JOHNSTON — Fifty-one years after he walked on the moon, Charles Duke returned to the town where he lived briefly as a child. The Apollo 16 astronaut served as the grand marshal of the Peach ...

Lunar Module pilot Charles Duke saluting the US flag during Apollo 16. (Credit: NASA) Imagine: you spent years training for a sojourn to the Moon, flew there on top of a Saturn V rocket as part of ...