Ahead of the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 16, Check the Preparations First

 

The museum is reopening after routine maintenance has stopped due to the COVID pandemic. Antique spaceship cleaned before 50th anniversary event.

Workers open the glass case covering the Apollo 16 lunar capsule at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Tuesday, February 1, 2022.

After a hiatus in routine maintenance due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the museum has reopened. The vintage spacecraft was cleaned before the 50th anniversary of its flight to the moon in 1972.

An officer uses a brush and vacuum cleaner to clean the hold of the Apollo 16 spacecraft at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville.

The spaceship capsule was carefully cleaned.

A spider web is attached to the Apollo 16 lunar capsule.

Workers surround the Apollo 16 lunar capsule as it cleans its container at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville.