#apollo xii

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If you can't be good, be colorful –Pete Conrad, Apollo 12 commander

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Sue Bean, Barbra Gordon, and Jane Conrad (wives of the Apollo 12 crew) After the launch of the Apollo 12 Lunar Landing Mission

[retropopcult]

The Apollo 12 crew of Pete Conrad, Dick Conrad & Alan Bean are all smiles shortly before their mission in November 1969. Their lunar landing was the second in the Apollo Program. Conrad and Bean were the third and fourth astronauts on the moon and spent 31 hours on the lunar surface while Command Module Pilot Richard Gordon orbited above.

A major difference from Apollo 11 were that hammocks were installed in the Lunar Module so Bean & Conrad could have a more comfortable stay with the spacecraft than Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin had the previous summer.

The Apollo 12 trio were widely seen as the most tightknit and fun loving Apollo crew (for a great depiction of their mission, watch the From the Earth to the Moon episode, "That's All There Is").

[titanicnerd-blog]

Those who have travelled to the moon:

Neil Armstrong

Edwin Aldrin Jr.

Michael Collins

Pete Conrad

Dick Gordon

Alan Bean

Jim Lovell

John Swigert

Fred Haise

Alan Shepherd

Stuart Roosa

Edgar Mitchell

Dave Scott

Al Worden

Jim Irwin

John Young

Ken Mattingly

Charlie Duke

Gene Cernan

Ron Evans

Jack Schmitt

Soon, there will be more names on this list: Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, Jeremy Hansen

[loxleyed]

Los 10 objetos más extraños en órbita.

Los 10 objetos más extraños en órbita.

Desde GTD-e

Estos son algunos de los objetos más interesantes que alguna vez han flotado sobre nuestras cabezas:

1. Una pelota de golf

Desde que en 1971 el astronauta Allan Shepard probara su swing sobre la superficie de la Luna, el golf y la carrera espacial han ido estrechamente unidos. En noviembre de 2006, el cosmonauta ruso Mikhail Tyurin golpeó una pelota de golf desde la Estación…

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Apollo XII patch design

[detroithistoricalsociety]

Roman Gribbs passed away today, April 5, 2016.  Gribbs served as Detroit’s mayor from 1970 to 1974.  Here Gribbs (far left) is shown with the astronauts of Apollo XII--Charles Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr.,and Alan L. Bean--during a 1970 visit.

[space1969tbs]

Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean climbs down the lunar module Intrepid, joining Pete Conrad on the moon, November 19, 1969. The second lunar landing mission, Apollo 12 proved the astronauts could make a precise landing. It also gave the crew a chance for a unique rendezvous with the robotic explorer Surveyor 3, which had been on the Moon since 1967. Conrad and Bean spent more than 31 hours on the surface before rejoining crewmate Dick Gordon orbiting overhead in the command module Yankee Clipper.