Space Junk: Apollo 16 Booster Crash Site Located

It appears a Johns Hopkins University physicist just located the crash site of the Apollo 16 third-stage booster.  Until now, NASA had no idea where the booster landed.  The 1972 mission was the fifth to land on the moon and the second-to-last for the Apollo program. 

But wait, didn't the Russian question the whole moon landing story last summer?   In a Moscow Times article, we learned that Russia's Investigative Committee spokesman, Vladimir Markin, expressed concerns about the disappearance of film footage associated with the 1969 moon landing as well as missing moon rocks. 

The paper quoted Mr. Markin as stating:

We are not contending that they did not fly [to the moon], and simply made a film about it. But all of these scientific — or perhaps cultural — artifacts are part of the legacy of humanity, and their disappearance without a trace is our common loss. An investigation will reveal what happened.

Maybe this latest booster sighting will help Mr. Markin sleep a little better.  Russia can train its telescopes on the site if it wants its own footage of moon rocks disturbed by a U.S. lunar landing.