... Apollo 12 Visits Surveyor 3 . ... Credit: Apollo 12 Crew, NASA Explanation: Apollo 12 was the second mission to land humans on the Moon. The landing site was picked to be near the location of Surveyor 3, a robot spacecraft that had landed on the Moon three years earlier. In the above photograph , taken by lunar module pilot Alan Bean , mission commander Pete Conrad jiggles the Surveyor spacecraft to see how firmly it is situated. ... Apollo 12: Stereo View Near Surveyor Crater . ...