
SC State Museum celebrates 50th Anniversary of Apollo 16 mission
A Palmetto native is being honored as well.
April is a huge month for the museum. David Dickson with the state museum says this month it’s celebrating the Apollo 16 mission to the moon by one of South Carolina’s very own. “It’s the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 16 Lunar Mission, which launched all the way back in 1972. Carrying on it south Carolinian Charles Duke who was the only South Carolinian to actually walk on the moon,” Dickson said.