Vintage NASA Apollo 16 color photograph, 8 x 10 inches, upper margin with " S-72-36293" printed in red, "This Paper Manufacture by Kodak" watermark on the verso (faded). 

“This paper manufactured by Kodak” paper was used from the early 1970s though the late 1990s.

S72-36293 (27 April 1972) --- The Apollo 16 Command Module (CM), with astronauts John W. Young, Thomas K. Mattingly II, and Charles M. Duke Jr. aboard, splashed down in the central Pacific Ocean to successfully conclude their lunar landing mission. The splashdown occurred at 290:37:06 ground elapsed time, 1:45:06 p.m. (CST) Thursday, April 27, 1972, at coordinates of 00:43.2 degrees south latitude and 156:11.4 degrees west longitude. A point approximately 215 miles southeast of Christmas Island. Later the three crew men were picked up by a helicopter from the prime recovery ship U.S.S. Ticonderoga.

Numbered NASA Photo S72-36293 from late Dick Underwood collection.

The photo has overall even toning on verso and the fades to red, which is very common with the photos from this period, a factor due in great part to the humidity and heat in Houston.

Richard “Dick” Underwood (1927-2011) was chief engineer on the production of the first topographic maps of the moon. He was the first person to view every photograph from the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and the first 23 space shuttle missions.

He also provided technical training to every astronaut who went in to space in the 20^th century.