Launched April 16, 1972, Apollo 16 was the fifth manned landing mission and marked the first exploration of the lunar highlands. John Young and Charles Duke lived on the Moon for 71 hours and 2 minutes (20 hours and 14 minutes of which were outside the Lunar Module Orion) while Thomas "Ken" Mattingly orbited the Moon inside the Command Module Casper.

The attached are strips cut from 24 lunar orbit monitor charts used by Lunar Module Pilot Duke during Orion's descent to the surface of the Moon. These shavings were a by-product of the archival encapsulation of the charts, 28 years after their return to Earth.