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The Apollo 12 Lunar Module landed near Surveyor 3 on November 19, 1969. Astronauts Conrad and Bean examined the spacecraft, and they brought back about 22 pounds (10 kg) of parts of the Surveyor to the Earth, including its TV camera, which is now on permanent display in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.
Surveyor 3's TV and telemetry systems were found to have been damaged by its unplanned landings and liftoffs. [2] Surveyor 3 was visited by Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean in November 1969, and remains the only probe visited by humans on another world. The Apollo 12 astronauts excised several components of Surveyor 3, including ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 January 2025. Second crewed Moon landing Apollo 12 Commander Pete Conrad studies the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, which had landed two years previously; the Apollo Lunar Module, Intrepid, can be seen at top right. Mission type Crewed lunar landing (H) Operator NASA COSPAR ID CSM: 1969-099A LM: 1969-099C ...
Surveyor 3 was the third lander of the American uncrewed Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon. The Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean landed the Lunar Module (LM) Intrepid north of Surveyor crater on November 19, 1969, and eventually walked over to Surveyor 3. During their descent, Surveyor crater was a major ...
Surveyor 3 camera brought back from the Moon by Apollo 12, on display at the National Air and Space Museum. Parts of Surveyor 3, which landed on the Moon in April 1967, were brought back to Earth by Apollo 12 in November 1969. [68] These samples were shown to have been exposed to lunar conditions. [69]
The first was achieved when the Lunar Module, Intrepid, touched down within sight of Surveyor 3 that had landed on the Moon over 2 years previously. Whereas the Apollo 11 crew only had up to 150 minutes during their EVA, the Apollo 12 crew more than tripled that amount over two Moonwalks, which included a visit to the Surveyor craft.
Launch of AS-506 space vehicle on July 16, 1969, at pad 39A for mission Apollo 11 to land the first men on the Moon. The Apollo program was a United States human spaceflight program carried out from 1961 to 1972 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which landed the first astronauts on the Moon. [1]
Launch date Operator Name Sample origin Samples returned Recovery date Mission result 16 July 1969 United States: Apollo 11: Moon: 22 kilograms (49 lb) 24 July 1969: Success 14 November 1969: United States Apollo 12: Moon 34 kilograms (75 lb) and Surveyor 3 parts [note 1] [57] 24 November 1969: Success 11 April 1970: United States Apollo 13 ...