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Apollo 12 and Moon by Pete Conrad of Johnson Space Center (JSC)
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Bean Descends Intrepid
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Bean Descends Intrepid |
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Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module pilot for the Apollo 12 mission, starts down the ladder of the Lunar Module (LM) "Intrepid" to join astronaut Charles Conrad, Jr., mission Commander, on the lunar surface. |
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11/19/1969 |
| NASA Center |
Johnson Space Center |
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Apollo 12 Visits Surveyor 3
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Apollo 12 Visits Surveyor 3 |
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Apollo 12 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo12info.html ] was the second mission to land humans [ http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html ] on the Moon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/moon.html ]. The landing site was picked to be near the location of Surveyor [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/surveyor.html ] 3, a robot spacecraft that had landed on the Moon [ http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html ] three years earlier. In the above photograph [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/ images12.html#HiRes ], taken by lunar module pilot Alan Bean [ http://www.nasm.edu/apollo/AS12/a12crew.htm ], mission commander Pete Conrad [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990715.html ] retrieves parts from the Surveyor. The lunar module [ http://www.moonlander.com/lmdata/ ] is visible [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951007.html ] in the distance. Apollo 12 [ http://www.nasm.edu/apollo/AS12/a12.htm ] brought back many photographs and moon rocks. Among the milestones achieved by Apollo 12 was the deployment [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951210.html ] of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap010303.html http://www-sn.jsc.nasa.gov/PlanetaryMissions/EXLibrary/ docs/ApolloCat/Part1/ALSEP.htm ], which carried out many experiments including one that measured the solar wind [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000318.html ]. |
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Apollo 12 Visits Surveyor 3
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Apollo 12 Visits Surveyor 3 |
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Apollo 12 [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/apollo12info.html ] was the second mission to land humans [ http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html ] on the Moon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/moon.html ]. The landing site was picked to be near the location of Surveyor [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/surveyor.html ] 3, a robot spacecraft that had landed on the Moon [ http://www.nineplanets.org/luna.html ] three years earlier. In the above photograph [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/images12.html#7134h ], taken by lunar module pilot Alan Bean [ http://www.nasm.edu/apollo/AS12/a12crew.htm ], mission commander Pete Conrad [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990715.html ] jiggles [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/images12.html#7134h ] the Surveyor spacecraft to see how firmly it is situated. The lunar module [ http://www.nasm.edu/galleries/attm/nojs/a11.am.lm.1.html ] is visible [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951007.html ] in the distance. Apollo 12 [ http://www.nasm.edu/apollo/AS12/a12.htm ] brought back many photographs and moon rocks. Among the milestones achieved by Apollo 12 was the deployment [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap951210.html ] of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package [ http://ares.jsc.nasa.gov/HumanExplore/Exploration/EXLibrary/docs/ApolloCat/Part1/ALSEP.htm ], which carried out many experiments including one that measured the solar wind [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000318.html ]. |
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Apollo 12: Surveyor 3 and In
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Apollo 12: Surveyor 3 and Intrepid |
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On April 20, 1967, NASA's robot spacecraft Surveyor 3 landed [ http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/lunar/surveyor.html ] on the moon, touching down on the inside slope of a small lunar crater in the Ocean of Storms. Over 2 1/2 years later, on November 19, 1969, the lunar module Intrepid, piloted by Apollo 12 [ http://www.nasm.edu/APOLLO/AS12/ ] astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean, flew overhead and landed nearby [ http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/pub/expmoon/Apollo12/A12_lsite.html ] in the second visit by humans to the lunar surface [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/SP-4214/cover.html ]. Intrepid touched down about 600 feet away and the moon walking astronauts [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12j.html ] were easily able to reach the Surveyor [ http://cass.jsc.nasa.gov/pub/expmoon/surveyor/Surveyor3.html ] and examine the remote explorer that had preceded them. Intrepid is seen in the background of this striking high resolution [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/images12.html#HiRes ] picture of Surveyor 3. Surveyor's leftmost foot pad appears dug in while its foreground foot pad has made two distinct imprints in the powdery lunar soil [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980327.html ] - clear indications that the Surveyor slid and bounced on landing. Using bolt cutters, the astronauts [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap961124.html ] removed Surveyor's TV camera (the cylinder shape at the right of the tall solar panel mast) and its sampling scoop (on the arm extended to the right), returning them to Earth for study. |
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Charles P. Conrad, Jr. 1930-
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Charles P. Conrad, Jr. 1930-1999 |
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Known for his sense of humor and infectious grin, Charles P. "Pete" Conrad [ http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo12/conrad/index.html ], as commander of the Apollo 12 mission [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990408.html ], was the third person to walk on the moon. Not a tall man, Conrad stepped down onto the lunar surface in November of 1969 and gleefully commented [ http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12.eva1prelim.html ], "Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me." Born June 2nd, 1930 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he graduated from Princeton University in 1953 and went on to become a Navy test pilot. Selected as a NASA astronaut in 1962, Conrad is seen here in 1965 [ http://images.jsc.nasa.gov/images/pao/GT5/10074055.htm ] during a suiting up activity in preparation for his first space flight - the endurance record setting Gemini 5 mission [ http://www.ksc.nasa.gov/history/gemini/gemini-v/gemini-v.html ]. His final space flight was to Skylab [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap980510.html ] in 1973. Tragically [ ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-080.txt ], Conrad died from injuries in a motorcycle accident on Thursday, July 8 [ ftp://ftp.hq.nasa.gov/pub/pao/pressrel/1999/99-079.txt ]. |
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