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View of the Earth seen from
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View of the Earth seen from the Apollo 12 spacecraft |
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A view of the Earth as photographed from the Apollo 12 spacecraft some three and a half hours after it lifted off on Nov. 14, 1969. Parts of the United States and Central America can be seen through the clouds. The area includes Texas, Lake Michigan, Florida and the Yucatan Peninsula. |
| Date Taken |
1969-11-14 |
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Astronaut David Scott in Mis
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Astronaut David Scott in Mission Control Room during Apollo 11 |
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Astronaut David R. Scott is seated at a console in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, bldg 30, during the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. He is watching a television monitor during the lunar surface extravehicular activity in which Astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. participated. Scott is the backup crew commander for the scheduled Apollo 12 lunar landing mission. |
| Date Taken |
1969-07-20 |
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Astronaut Charles Conrad sit
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Astronaut Charles Conrad sits in cockpit of Lunar Landing Training Vehicle |
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Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., commander of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission, sits in the cockpit of a Lunar Landing Training Vehicle (LLTV) during a lunar simulation flight at Ellington Air Force Base. The LLTV is used to train Apollo crews in lunar landing techniques. |
| Date Taken |
1969-10-25 |
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Apollo 12 crew during prefli
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Apollo 12 crew during preflight news conference |
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The members of the Apollo 12 prime crew discuss their scheduled lunar landing mission at a preflight press conference which was held on October 11, 1969, in the Manned Spacecraft Center Auditorium. Left to right, are Astronauts Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot, Richard F. Gordon Jr., command module pilot, and Charles Conrad Jr., commander. |
| Date Taken |
1969-10-11 |
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Astronaut Alan Bean particip
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Astronaut Alan Bean participates in lunar surface simulation |
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Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission, participates in lunar surface simulation training in bldg 29 at the Manned Spacecraft Center. Bean is strapped to a one-sixth gravity simulator. |
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1969-10-24 |
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Arrival of the first Apollo
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Arrival of the first Apollo 12 lunar sample return container |
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The first Apollo 12 sample return container, filled with lunar surface material collected by Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., and Alan L. Bean on the lunar surface, is being carried to a vehicle which will transport it the Manned Spacecraft Center's (MSC) Lunar Receiving Laboratory. The men carrying the box are David E. Peterson (left) and Richard C. Graves from MSC. Peterson is with the Recovery Operations Branch, Landing and Recovery Divison, and Graves is with the Project Support Office, Preventive Medicine Division. |
| Date Taken |
1969-11-25 |
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Apollo 12 crewmembers greete
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Apollo 12 crewmembers greeted by family on arrival at Ellington |
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Members of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission's crew are greeted by their wives and children at the front of a large crowd on hand to welcome home the three. The Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF), with the crew inside, arrived at Ellington Air Force Base aboard a U.S. Air Force C0141 transport jet on November 29, 1969. The crewmen, looking out the MQF window at the crowd, are (l-r) Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr., and ALan L. Bean. Their wives are, from left to right, Mrs. Barbara Gordon, Mrs Jane Conrad and Mrs. Sue Bean. The women are wearing leis, an Hawaii tradition (60759), Conrad talks by phone to members of his family standing outside the MQF. Beside him are Gordon (center) and Bean (60760). |
| Date Taken |
1969-11-29 |
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Inoculation testing of Apoll
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Inoculation testing of Apollo 12 materials |
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E. Landrum Young, Brown and Root Northrop, injects a young Japanese quail with a suspension of pulvarized Apollo 12 lunar material within a quarantine cabinet in the Invertebrate, Aves and Fish Laboratory of the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, bldg 37, Manned Spacecraft Center. The bird is being inoculated in the abdominal cavity. |
| Date Taken |
1969-12-09 |
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Thin section of rock brought
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Thin section of rock brought back to earth by Apollo 12 mission |
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A photomicrographic of a thin section of one of the rocks brought back to earth by Apollo 12 lunar landing mission, revealing the mineralogy of the rock. Relatively large enuant crystals are visible. This texture, termed porphyritic, suggests differing rates of growth of the large crystals versus the groundmoss minerals. The large crystals are olivine and the groundmoss minerals are pyrexenes, feldspar and metal compounds - minerals which make up the bulk of the Apollo 12 rocks. The large crystals are approximately one millimeter across. The texture and the mineralogy are both common in volcanic rocks. |
| Date Taken |
1969-12-16 |
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Astronaut Charles Conrad dur
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Astronaut Charles Conrad during ceremonies after release from quarantine |
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Astronaut Charles Conrad Jr., commander of the Apoll 12 lunar landing mission, makes several remarks publicly in response to the welcome given him and other members of the Apollo 12 crew upon their release from post-mission isolation in the Manned Spacecraft Center's Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL). Pictured with Conrad outside bldg 37, which houses the LRL, are his fellow crewmen Astronauts Alan L. Bean (left) and Richard F. Gordon Jr. |
| Date Taken |
1969-12-10 |
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Activity in Mission Control
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Activity in Mission Control Center during Apollo 12 lunar landing mission |
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Overal view of activity in the Mission Operations Control Room in the Mission Control Center, bldg 30, during the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission. When this picture was made the first Apollo 12 extravehicular activity was being televised from the surface of the Moon. |
| Date Taken |
1969-11-19 |
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Radish plant exposed to luna
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Radish plant exposed to lunar material collected on the Apollo 12 mission |
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The leaves of this radish plant were rubbed with lunar material colleted on the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission in experiments conducted in the Manned Spacecraft Center's Lunar Receiving Laboratory. The plant was exposed to the material 30 days before this photograph was made. Evidently no ill effects resulted from contact with the lunar soil. |
| Date Taken |
1970-01-13 |
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Thin section of rock brought
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Thin section of rock brought back to earth by Apollo 12 mission |
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An idea of the mineralogy and texture of a lunar sample can be achieved by use of color microphotos. This thin section is Apollo 12 lunar sample number 12057.27, under polarized light. The lavender minerals are pyrexene, the black mineral is ilmenite, the white and brown, feldspar, and the remainder, olivine. |
| Date Taken |
1970-01-01 |
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