Posted on 09/26/2018 1:41:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Lightning struck Apollo 12's...Saturn V twice during the launch. While the astronauts had some trouble with the displays on board after the lightning strikes, the rocket remained functional and placed the spacecraft in its target orbit around Earth...
During landing, Conrad and Bean anxiously looked outside, hoping that what they saw on the surface would correspond with what they had memorized from maps while back on Earth. When Conrad spotted a familiar crater, he whooped, "There it is! Son of a gun, right down the middle of the road!"
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The crew faced problems as their first spacewalk progressed. Bean fried the video camera lens when he accidentally pointed it toward the sun, leaving the mission with no way to record usable live video.
Then, Conrad struggled with deploying a nuclear-powered experiment package; he couldn't free the plutonium cask from its case. When repeated attempts proved unsuccessful, Conrad reluctantly tried hitting the package with a hammer. The fuel element sprang free, and Bean quipped, "Don't come to the moon without a hammer."
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The astronauts hiked in a large circle, making stops at various sites to gather samples. Bean and Conrad also experimented with new sampling techniques and retrieved pieces of Surveyor (such as the TV camera and electrical cables) to take back to Earth for scientific analysis. To the astronauts' surprise, Surveyor was coated with dust kicked up from Conrad's landing, which happened about 656 feet (200 m) away.
The three splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Nov. 24, about 3 miles (5 km) from the target area. The flight had lasted 244 hours, 36 minutes, 25 seconds — just 62 seconds longer than planned. The "Pinpoint Mission," as Apollo 12 was called, had demonstrated how future space missions could be executed with high precision.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Who wrote this crap? “first spacewalk progressed”
I read the article, not any info on where the soundstage was located.
Capricorn one was a good movie
After Apollo 8 I went to an event where one could ask questions of Thomas Paine, director of NASA. I asked him if one of the moon missions would go to the place Surveyor landed and bring some of it to se the effect of Solar Radiation. He said,”No”. Less than a year later they did just that. ODD.
I believe it was written by someone whose by-line reads “Elizabeth Howell”
You gave them the idea!
Always been curious. All3 astronauts on Apollo 12 have passed. We will never know.
I have audio of that mission. During the docking maneuver in between the landing and command modules astronaut Gordon can be heard over an open Mike “ they say that Gordon is smooth as silk! “
LMAO!
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OJ Simpson got killed in that movie!
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