Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Government agency: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION (NASA)
Event Date: 1969-11-20
Medium: COLOR
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.237389

Inscriptions:
Recto, typed: NASA / S-69-59489; Verso, stamped: Transworld Feature Syndicate INC. [crossed out]; stamped: NASA NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION / HOUSTON, TEXAS 77058 / FOR RELEASE: / PHOTO NO. S-69-59489 [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 / 20 NOV 1969 / MANNED SPACECRAFT CENTER, HOUSTON, TEXAS / TV VIEW OF APOLLO 12 DOCKING ---The Apollo 12 Lunar Module / in ascent stage, approaches the Command and Service Modules / for docking shortly after noon (CST) on Nov. 20 1969. The / LM was making its ascent to join the CSM after the third and / fourth men in history had explored an area of the Moon. The / rendezvous, which rejoined Astronauts Chalres Conrad Jr., / commander, and Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot, with Astronaut / Richard F. Gordon Jr., command module pilot, took place above the / Ocean of Storms. This photograph was reproduced from live / color television transmitted back to Earth from the Command / Module, with Gordon at the controls. The TV period of trans- / mission was the eighth of the mission.

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