Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Government agency: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA)
Event Date: 1969-10-10
Medium: COLOR
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.237377

Inscriptions:
Recto, typed: NASA / S-69-55662; Verso, stamped: Please, do not alter / mark, or airbrush this / print. / Prints must be returned / after use. / Black Star, Library; stamped: NASA NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION / HOUSTON, TEXAS 77058 / FOR RELEASE: / PHOTO NO. / S-69-55662 [typed number] / THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS A GOVERNMENT PUBLICATION – NOT SUBJECT TO COPYRIGHT. / It may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NASA or by any NASA employee / of a commercial product, process, or service, or used in any other manner that might mis- / lead. Accordingly, it is requested that if this photograph is used in advertising, posters, / books, etc., layout and copy be submitted to NASA prior to release. NASA MSC also / requests written notification of any uses of this photograph in scientific-engineering projects; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / from BLACK STAR; typed: COLOR / 10 OCT 1969 / S-69-55662 / FLAGSTAFF, ARIZ. / APOLLO 12 GEOLOGY FIELD TRIP // TRAINING---Astronauts Alan L. Bean (left) and Charles Conrad Jr., the two crewmen of the / Apollo 12 lunar landing mission who are schedule to participate / in two lengthy periods of extravehicular activity on the lunar / surface, are pictured during a geological field trip and training / at a simulated lunar surface area near Flagstaff, Ariz. Here, / Conrad—the Apollo 12 commander—gets a close look through hand / lens at the strategraphy (study of strata or layers beneath the / surface) of a man-dug hole, while Bean—the Apollo 12 mission’s / lunar module pilot—looks on. The topography in this area, with / several man-made modifications, resembles very closely much of / the topography found on the lunar surface. While Conrad and Bean / explore the lunar surface (plans call for Apollo 12 spacecraft / to land in the Sea of Storms), Astronaut Richard F. Gordon Jr., / command module pilot for the Apollo 12 mission, will remain with the / Command and Service Module in lunar orbit. The Apollo 12 mission / is scheduled to lift off from Cape Kennedy on Nov. 14, 1969

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: AVIATION / APOLLO 12
Retouching: N