a12_Conrad signed_front (AS12-48-7134 eq, auto)
"This unusual photograph, taken during the second Apollo 12 extravehicular activity (EVA), shows two U.S. spacecraft on the surface of the moon. The Apollo 12 Lunar Module (LM) is in the background. The unmanned Surveyor 3 spacecraft is in the foreground. The Apollo 12 LM, with astronauts Charles Conrad Jr. and Alan L. Bean aboard, landed about 600 feet from Surveyor 3 in the Ocean of Storms. The television camera and several other pieces were taken from Surveyor 3 and brought back to Earth for scientific examination. Here, Conrad examines the Surveyor's TV camera prior to detaching it. Astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr. remained with the Apollo 12 Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit while Conrad and Bean descended in the LM to explore the moon. Surveyor 3 soft-landed on the moon on April 19, 1967."
The apparent gradual darkening (progressing from left-to-right) of the inscription/signature is not actually the case, it’s uniform throughout. Despite being diffuse (or so I thought), the source of natural sunlight was from the left.
Odyssey Group CoA, 11/22/95, 29/125.
10.75” x 13.75”.
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo12/html/...
From the ALJS, surprisingly scant & a little disappointing...other than the "jiggling" reference:
"Pete is "jiggling" the spacecraft to see if it is firmly planted."
a12_Conrad signed_front (AS12-48-7134 eq, auto)
"This unusual photograph, taken during the second Apollo 12 extravehicular activity (EVA), shows two U.S. spacecraft on the surface of the moon. The Apollo 12 Lunar Module (LM) is in the background. The unmanned Surveyor 3 spacecraft is in the foreground. The Apollo 12 LM, with astronauts Charles Conrad Jr. and Alan L. Bean aboard, landed about 600 feet from Surveyor 3 in the Ocean of Storms. The television camera and several other pieces were taken from Surveyor 3 and brought back to Earth for scientific examination. Here, Conrad examines the Surveyor's TV camera prior to detaching it. Astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr. remained with the Apollo 12 Command and Service Modules (CSM) in lunar orbit while Conrad and Bean descended in the LM to explore the moon. Surveyor 3 soft-landed on the moon on April 19, 1967."
The apparent gradual darkening (progressing from left-to-right) of the inscription/signature is not actually the case, it’s uniform throughout. Despite being diffuse (or so I thought), the source of natural sunlight was from the left.
Odyssey Group CoA, 11/22/95, 29/125.
10.75” x 13.75”.
spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/apollo/apollo12/html/...
From the ALJS, surprisingly scant & a little disappointing...other than the "jiggling" reference:
"Pete is "jiggling" the spacecraft to see if it is firmly planted."