Credit & Copyright: NASA,
Kennedy Space Center, Richard Gordan
Explanation:
A few months after
Apollo 11's historic
Moon landing,
Apollo 12
with commander Charles Conrad Jr., Command Module pilot Richard Gordan, and
Lunar Module pilot Alan Bean returned for more geographic and scientific
exploration. Gordan took the above picture from the Command Module, where
he stayed during the mission, while Conrad and Bean in the Lunar Module
descend to the
lunar
surface, where they landed, collected samples and conducted scientific
experiments.
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