Why Apollo 16 left the heat-flow cable unrepaired

Before Apollo 16’s second lunar EVA, Mission Control ruled out repairing the heat-flow cable because the work could take too much time and might short-circuit the ALSEP central station^[1]. The experimenters said they would strengthen the cable for Apollo 17; the chronology does not say the Apollo 16 cable was repaired^[2].

The supplied excerpt does not document Duke’s probe deployment or Young stepping on the cable, so it cannot establish that part of the first-EVA sequence.