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Watch Charles Duke Struggle To Collect The Biggest Lunar Sample Ever

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Just look at Apollo 16 astronaut Charlie Duke as he valiantly muscles Lunar Sample 61016 from the ground at Plum Crater in 1972. The rock - dubbed "Big Muley" after NASA field geology team leader Bill Muehlberger - weighed 12kg and was comprised of shocked anorthosite melded into a fragment of troctolitic, most likely generated during the impact 1.8 million years ago that formed the South Ray Crater. 
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Charles Moss Duke, Jr. (born October 3, 1935) is a retired US Air Force brigadier general, and a former United States astronaut for NASA. As lunar module pilot for Apollo 16 in 1972, he became the tenth and youngest of the 12 people who have walked on the Moon.
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