Half a century later, where have those Surveyor 3 artifacts ended up today? Apollo 12 crewmates Charles "Pete" Conrad and Alan Bean achieved the first precise lunar touchdown on Nov. 19 ...

No clouds were going to stop NASA from launching Apollo 12 on the second manned ... the 1967 unmanned explorer, Surveyor 3. Mission accomplished. During their two moonwalks, Conrad and Bean ...

Apollo 12 would be different ... involving the astronauts visiting the unmanned Surveyor 3 lander from which they would retrieve parts for analysis. Meanwhile, the Command Module Pilot would ...

Apollo 12 was the second crewed mission to ... Conrad landed with little fuel to spare, and within shouting distance of Surveyor 3, a robotic spacecraft that had landed on the moon more than ...

A little more than two years after it landed on the moon with the goal of paving the way for a future human mission, the Surveyor 3 spacecraft got a visit from Apollo 12 Commander Charles Conrad ...

NASA had landed the Surveyor 3 unmanned craft in 1967, and the location had several advantages for an Apollo 12 landing site. It was clearly an area where a spacecraft could safely land ...

I recently saw Apollo 13 again — this time with the ... The plan was to land close — but not too close — to the Surveyor 3 probe. They were 600 feet away when they landed, although the ...

In November 1969, Apollo 12’s Pete Conrad and Alan Bean touched down close enough to Surveyor 3, which had been sitting in the Ocean of Storms for more than two years, to walk over and remove ...

The instrument enclosure of NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor was prepared for critical ... Wrapped in silver thermal blanketing, the 12-foot-long (3.7-meter-long) angular structure was subjected ...