a12_v_bw_o_n (69-H-1719, 69-HC-1113)
“Astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean inspect the Surveyor III spacecraft. The Lunar Module planned landing point is 1,118 ft away in the Sea of Storms area, near side of the Moon. The two astronauts during the second extravehicular activity will cut a cable on surveyor releasing its TV camera to return to Earth. The bacterial load which was on this cable at launch of Surveyor III was well known. It's return will bring interesting data on the effect of lunar environment after 2 ½ years. This is the second U.S. lunar landing mission.”
Obviously no grammatical QC of the above, along with the out-of-context & cryptic “bacterial load” reference, But hey, it’s a NASA caption, so it’s passable.
Conrad actually dropped Intrepid down ~600 ft from Surveyor…I guess that’s some of that Top Gun Naval Aviator “pilot shit”.
Regarding the “bacterial load”. Good/informative reading:
www.space.com/11536-moon-microbe-mystery-solved-apollo-12...
Credit: Space.com
In my world, Craig Kavafes can do/did NO wrong, but those LM footpads look noticeably/disproportionately small…to me. I’ll overlook it.
As mission commander, Conrad of course had the honor of cutting the parts off Surveyor, and appears to be preparing to remove the TV camera. Bean also appears to be photographing the task, which I don't think occurred. The photo documentation, that is.
a12_v_bw_o_n (69-H-1719, 69-HC-1113)
“Astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean inspect the Surveyor III spacecraft. The Lunar Module planned landing point is 1,118 ft away in the Sea of Storms area, near side of the Moon. The two astronauts during the second extravehicular activity will cut a cable on surveyor releasing its TV camera to return to Earth. The bacterial load which was on this cable at launch of Surveyor III was well known. It's return will bring interesting data on the effect of lunar environment after 2 ½ years. This is the second U.S. lunar landing mission.”
Obviously no grammatical QC of the above, along with the out-of-context & cryptic “bacterial load” reference, But hey, it’s a NASA caption, so it’s passable.
Conrad actually dropped Intrepid down ~600 ft from Surveyor…I guess that’s some of that Top Gun Naval Aviator “pilot shit”.
Regarding the “bacterial load”. Good/informative reading:
www.space.com/11536-moon-microbe-mystery-solved-apollo-12...
Credit: Space.com
In my world, Craig Kavafes can do/did NO wrong, but those LM footpads look noticeably/disproportionately small…to me. I’ll overlook it.
As mission commander, Conrad of course had the honor of cutting the parts off Surveyor, and appears to be preparing to remove the TV camera. Bean also appears to be photographing the task, which I don't think occurred. The photo documentation, that is.