Charles Duke

Charles Duke

Charles Moss Duke, Jr. (born October 3, 1935) is a retired US Air Force brigadier general, and a former United States astronaut and aerospace engineer for NASA. As lunar module pilot for Apollo 16 in 1972, he became the tenth and youngest of only twelve people who have walked on the Moon.

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