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Charles Moss Duke Jr. is an American former astronaut, United States Air Force (USAF) officer and test pilot who, as Lunar Module pilot of Apollo 16 in 1972, became the 10th and youngest person to walk on the Moon, at age 36 years and 201 days. Duke is one of four surviving Moon walkers, along with David Scott, Buzz Aldrin and Harrison Schmitt.
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Born 3 October 1935 · Q112284
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“s distinctive Southern drawl became familiar to audiences around the world, as the voice of a Mission Control made nervous by a long landing that almost expended all of the Lunar Module Eagle”
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Awarded National Aviation Hall of Fame (2019).
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To mark 50 years since the Apollo 11 mission
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Country music duo The Stryker Brothers released the song "Charlie Duke Took Country Music To The Moon", which tells the true story of how Duke brought two audio cassette tapes of country music to play during the Apollo 1
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As an Astronaut Consultant with the goal of inspiring through film the next generation to go to Mars
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And the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 2019
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Awarded International Space Hall of Fame (1983).
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Duke became a committed born-again Christian
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And was promoted to brigadier general the following year
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Heard that the company was thinking of expanding into the rest of Texas
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And the Boy Scouts of America Distinguished Eagle Scout Award in 1975
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Duke received an Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of South Carolina, an Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Francis Marion University in 1990, and an Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy from Clemson Un
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Inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame in 1973, and the International Space Hall of Fame in 1983
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Won NASA Distinguished Service Medal (1972).
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Duke became the first twin to fly in space
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American Astronautical Society Flight Achievement Award for 1972, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' Haley Astronautics Award for 1973, Fédération Aéronautique Internationale V
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Became the 10th and youngest person to walk on the Moon, at age 36 years and 201 days
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Manned Spacecraft Center Certificate of Commendation in 1970, the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal with Oak leaf cluster, the Legion of Merit, Society of Experimental Test Pilots' Iven C
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Was a member of the astronaut support crew for Apollo 10
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Duke became a member of the support crew for Apollo 10, along with Joe Engle and Jim Irwin
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Along with two fellow aviators from Edwards, Joe Engle and Bill Pogue
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NASA announced that it was recruiting a fifth group of astronauts
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After the war ended, they settled in Lancaster, South Carolina, where his father sold insurance, and his mother ran a dress shop
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And was stationed at Naval Air Station Daytona Beach, so the family moved there
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Brought the United States into World War II, his father volunteered to join the Navy, and was assigned to Naval Air Station North Island in California
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The son of Charles Moss Duke, an insurance salesman, and his wife Willie Catherine Duke (née Waters), who worked as a buyer for Best & Co
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Born 1935-10-03.
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