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AS12-46-6820 - Apollo 12 - Apollo 12 Mission image - Astronaut Bean deploys ion detector experiment

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Description: Astronaut Alan L. Bean, Apollo 12 lunar module pilot, deploys the suprathermal ion detector experiment on the lunar surface. Image was taken during the first Extravehicular Activity (EVA 1) of the Apollo 12 mission. Original film magazine was labeled Y,film type was HCEX (SO-168 - Ektachrome EF,high-speed color reversal,ASA 160) taken with an 60mm lens. The Sun angle was low,the approximate camera tilt was Medium Oblique and the direction of the tilt was West.

Subject Terms: Apollo 12 Flight, Moon, Spaceborne Experiments

Categories: EVA

Date: 11/19/1969

Original: Film - 70MM CT

Interior_Exterior: Exterior

Ground_Orbit: Ground

Apollo 12 - AS12-46-6715 through AS12-57-8455b

Apollo 12 launched from Cape Kennedy on Nov. 14, 1969, into a cloudy, rain-swept sky. The flight plan for Apollo 12 was similar to that of Apollo 11, except Apollo 12 was to fly a higher inclination to the lunar equator and leave the free-return trajectory after the second translunar midcourse correction. Prior to lunar orbit insertion, a telecast was made to Earth on Nov. 17, showing the Earth, moon, spacecraft interior and intravehicular transfer of the crew. Later that day, when Apollo 12 went behind the moon at about 97 miles up, the first lunar orbit insertion burn began. The burn lasted for about six minutes, placing the spacecraft into an elliptical orbit of 69 by 195 miles. On Nov. 19, with the LM behind the moon in the 14th orbit, and some 109 hours, 23 minutes into the mission, the descent orbit insertion maneuver began. With Conrad controlling the descent semi-manually for the last 500 feet, a precision landing occurred at about 110 hours, 32 minutes into the mission, and closer to the target than expected. Intrepid landed in the Ocean of Storms at 3 degrees, 11 hours, 51 minutes south, and 23 degrees, 23 minutes, and 7.5 seconds west. Landing was about 120 feet northeast of Head Crater, and about 535 feet northwest from where Surveyor III stood in its crater. Apollo 12 touched down approximately 950 miles west of where Apollo 11 had landed. Three hours after the landing and before the first extravehicular activity or, EVA, began. Richard Gordon, orbiting 69 miles up in the Yankee Clipper, was able to see both the Intrepid and Surveyor through the use of a 28-power sextant telescope. Conrad opened Intrepid's hatch at 115 hours, 10 minutes into the mission to begin the first lunar EVA for the Apollo 12 crew. In their first lunar exploration, Conrad spent three hours, 39 minutes outside Intrepid, and Bean logged two hours, 58 minutes on the lurain. Crew Charles Conrad Jr., Commander Alan L. Bean, Lunar Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon Jr., Command Module Pilot

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Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon.
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