X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Charles Duke


Far Ultraviolet Camera/Spectrograph

The experiment was placed on the Descartes Highlands region of lunar surface where Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke landed in April 1972.

James May on the Moon

The show saw May interviewing Apollo moonwalkers Harrison Schmitt, Alan Bean, and Charlie Duke, before himself experiencing weightlessness and G-forces similar to that of a Saturn V rocket launch.



see also

Charles, Duke of Berry

Charles X of France (1757–1836) was previously Charles, Duke of Berry

Charles VII of France (1403–1461) was previously Charles, Duke of Berry

Marie de Bourbon

Mary of Bourbon (d. 1538), daughter of Charles, Duke of Vendôme,

Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt

In only one of the 39 surviving manuscript copies the letter also bears the closing legend Actum in castris in obsidione Luceriæ anno domini 1269º 8º die augusti ("Done in camp during the siege of Lucera, August 8, 1269"), which might indicate that Peregrinus was in the army of Charles, duke of Anjou and king of Sicily, who in 1269 laid siege to the city of Lucera.