{"id":384852,"date":"2026-04-06T15:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384852\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T15:24:07","slug":"apollo-16s-youngest-moonwalker-sends-heartfelt-message-to-artemis-ii-crew-ahead-of-moon-flyby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/384852\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 16\u2019s youngest moonwalker sends heartfelt message to Artemis II crew ahead of Moon flyby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke recorded a heartfelt message for <a href=\"https:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/watch-live-artemis-ii-launch-175953316.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:the Artemis II crew;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;the Artemis II crew&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Artemis II crew<\/a> on their journey to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/moon\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Moon;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Moon&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Moon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The historic mission launched on 1 April, carrying the first crewed mission to the Moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mr Duke, now 90, became the youngest person to walk on the Moon at 36 years old. Whilst there, he left a photograph of his family on the surface.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOn the Moon is a photo of my family. I pray it reminds you that we and America and all of the world are cheering you on,&#8221; Mr Duke told the Artemis II crew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Fitting that they hear his words as they close in on their lunar destination,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/nasa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nasa;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Nasa&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Nasa<\/a> said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke recorded a heartfelt message for the Artemis II crew on their journey to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[171332,79163,61,60,169094,6185,171333,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-384852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-charlie-duke","9":"tag-heartfelt-message","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mission-to-the-moon","13":"tag-moon","14":"tag-mr-duke","15":"tag-science","16":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}