Latest posts tagged with #Apollo12 on Bluesky
Remembering astronaut and artist Alan Bean, born today March 15 1932.
Moonwalker during #Apollo12, he served as commander for Skylab III and worked in the astronaut office. He later retired from NASA and the Navy, devoting his time to painting his memories of sights few had seen
"Things are going well for us, Pete"
-Alan Bean
#Happybirthday March 15, 1932 to Alan Bean, #Apollo12 astronaut and fourth person to walk on the Moon.
He died 2018, the last survivor of that mission. Only four of the moonwalkers remain with us.
#Apollo12 Astronaut Alan Bean was born #otd March 15, 1932. A talented artist, he dedicated his later life to the art of painting his memories of Apollo, allowing us to see the Moon through his eyes. He was the 4th man to walk on the moon!
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Star Trek’s #NichelleNichols with #Apollo12 Astronaut #AlanBean at NASA's Johnson #Space Center in Texas, March 4, 1977. #BlackHistoryMonth
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#MarsHillBlog Post A brief look at Apollo 12 #Apollo12 #PeteConrad #AlanBean #RichardGordon #Earth #TheMoon #SolarSystem #Space paulburgin.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-br...
Happy Birthday Rudyard Kipling!
30 December 1865
"I am not blind to the sun
As my goal is clear....
Rudyard Kipling
#space #Kipling #AlanBean
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📣 New Podcast! "IT RANG LIKE A BELL: Is the Moon Hollow? (Alien Base vs. "Geological Freak")" on @Spreaker #aliens #ancientaliens #apollo12 #astronomy #conspiracytheory #cosmicmystery #geophysics #grailmission #hollowmoon #moonlanding #nasa #sciencefacts #spacemystery #spacepodcast #unexplained
#Apollo12 #OTD
Duration: 10 days, four hours, 36 minutes, 25 seconds
Distance: 952,354 miles
Lunar Location: Ocean of Storms
Landing November 24, 1969; 3:58:24 p.m. EST Pacific Ocean
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#Apollo12 - Yankee Clipper returned to Earth on November 24, 1969, at 20:58 UT (3:58 pm Eastern Time, 10:58 am HST), in the Pacific Ocean. The landing was hard, and a camera was dislodged and struck Bean in the forehead.
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The #Apollo12 splashdown occurred at 2:58 p.m. (CST),
November 24, 1969, near American Samoa.
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The #Apollo12 mission flew from November 14 to November 24 in 1969. It was the second manned moon landing. The Command Module Yankee Clipper with the crew members’ signatures now resides at the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton.
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November 24, 1969: #Space - the #Apollo12 command module splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to the Moon.
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"THREE MORE LIKE BEFORE"
USS Hornet crewmen are greeted by the crew of the #Apollo12 lunar landing mission as the 3 astronauts are transferred from a U.S. Navy helicopter to a Mobile Quarantine Facility aboard the prime recovery vessel.
November 24, 1969
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For the crew of Apollo 12,
who splashed down on November 24, 1969,
this forced quarantine meant
they had to spend that #Thanksgiving in a trailer
56 anniversary of the #Apollo12 landing!
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November 24,1969, #Apollo12 astronauts aboard Hello66 (Helicopter)
after their recovery and on their way to the USS Hornet
56 anniversary of the #Apollo12 landing!
I love these chucks
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In mission control, Apollo 12 Flight Directors Glynn Lunney, Pete Frank, Gerry Griffin and Clifford Charlesworth celebrate the successful splashdown of #Apollo12
November 24 1969
55 anniversary of the #Apollo12 landing!
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#OTD November 24, 1969: After 244 hours in space (31 hours on the Moon) Apollo 12 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean.
56 anniversary of the #Apollo12 landing!
"Request Permission to come abord
Pete and Dick.."
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#APOLLO12 - One of the three Apollo 12 astronauts is hoisted aboard recovery helicopter in a Bill Pugh rescue net following splashdown in the Pacific Ocean at 3:58 p.m. EST November 24, 1969, approximately 350 nautical miles southest of Samoa.
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November 24, 1969. The #Apollo12 comes home,
the command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the 2nd mission to the Moon.
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A solar eclipse—except with Earth instead of the Moon passing in front of the Sun—captured on 70mm black and white film by the crew of #Apollo12 during their return from the Moon on November 24, 1969 (original image # AS12-53-7931)
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November 24, 1969
The crew of #Apollo12 are hoisted aboard a recovery helicopter that will take them to the USS Hornet. Note the bandage above Al Bean's right eye, which covers a wound sustained when a camera struck him on the head during a rough splashdown.
24. Nov 1969: Charles Conrad, Alan Bean und Richard Gordon wassern nach ihrem Mondflug mit #Apollo12 sicher im Pazifik.
November 21, 1969, #Apollo12 headed home after 89 hours in #lunar orbit. #Space
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A thinsection imaged in cross-polarized light. Brightly colored pyroxene and olivine grains surround gray laminated plagioclase feldspar. field of view ~1mm. Sample 12005.
A magnesium-rich basalt retrieved by the Apollo 12 mission from the Moon. brightly coloured pyroxene and olivine surround grey plagioclase in cross-polars.
This photo was taken in 2003 from a travelling collection of thin sections sponsored by NASA […]
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A partially illuminated Earth rises above the lunar horizon in this photograph taken from the #Apollo12 spacecraft in lunar orbit on November 19, 1969.
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Best friends...
3 best friends who went to the moon...
Great crew. #Apollo12
RIP Pete Conrad; Dick Gordon; Alan Bean
November 19, 1969
#OTD 56 anniversary of the #Apollo12 landing!
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Apollo 12 landed in an area called Mare Cognitum in the Ocean of Storms.
Pete Conrad nicknamed his target landing area "Pete's Parking Lot".
November 19, 1969
#OTD 54 anniversary of the #Apollo12 landing!
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