a12_v_bw_o_n (69-H-1772, (AS12-48-7119))

“A close-up view of the unmanned Surveyor III spacecraft footpad, photographed during the second extravehicular activity period (EVA-2) of Astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr., Apollo 12 mission commander, and Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot. Their Apollo 12 lunar module landed Nov. 19, 1969m, in the Ocean of Storms some 600 feet away from the Surveyor III spacecraft. The Surveyor III landing took place in the Ocean of Storms on April 19, 1967. Apollo 12 was the second manned lunar landing mission.”

 

Transcript leading up to & during the photograph taken:

 

“134:10:47 Conrad: I think you ought to photo that scoop (means "footpad") there, the way it dug in.

134:10:50 Bean: I did.

 

134:10:52 Conrad: There's no way that thing can slide down the hill on us, the way it's dug in.

 

134:10:57 Bean: Uh-uh. Okay, now let me get that footpad. That's a beautiful shot there. We're going to do footpad 3, I guess it is, or is that 1?

 

134:11:05 Conrad: Footpad 3.

 

134:11:06 Bean: Okay. And that's going to be in f/8, probably. It's pretty low; let me try 5.6. (To Houston, louder than he's been talking to Pete or, for that matter, to Houston, lately) That aft honeycomb shock absorber struck the dirt and looks like it took some of the shock. Other than that, the front one didn't appear to do that. Stereo there. Sure isn't going to slide down the hill though, that's for sure.

 

[Al's photos of footpad 1 (downslope) are AS12-48- 7119 and 7120.]”

 

Above & photograph at:

 

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/a12.surveyor.html

 

Specifically:

 

www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a12/AS12-48-7119HR.jpg

Both above credit: ALSJ website

 

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