In April 1972, Apollo 16 astronaut Charles “Charlie” Duke became the tenth person to walk on the Moon. During the mission’s third and final moonwalk, on April 23, he carried a 3-by-5-inch plastic-encased portrait of himself, his wife Dorothy and their sons Charles and Thomas.
NASA’s Apollo 16 journal records that, during EVA-3, Duke took the photo out onto the lunar surface, placed it on the ground and photographed it there. The reverse side bears a handwritten note explaining that this is the family of astronaut Charlie Duke from planet Earth, who landed on the Moon on April 20, 1972, the landing date in Houston time.
The photo was left in the Descartes Highlands and, after decades of extreme temperature swings, is likely badly faded but still lying in the lunar dust
