429 a
Pete Conrad

Alan Bean hammering a double core tube near Halo Crater

Apollo 12, November 14-24, 1969, EVA 2, 133:25:41 GET

Vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with NASA HQ caption numbered “NASA AS12-49-7286” on the verso

429 b
Alan Bean

Panoramic view showing Pete Conrad with the Hand Tool Carrier near Halo Crater

Apollo 12, November 14-24, 1969, EVA 2, 133:36:44 GET

Unreleased photograph of a hand-made mosaic assembled from 8 x 10 inch prints by the Mapping Sciences Laboratory at NASA MSC, vintage gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), numbered “NASA S-70-24308” (NASA MSC) in black in top margin [NASA frames AS12-49-7308 to AS12-49-7311]
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

429 a
NASA SP-235, frontispiece.

429 b
NASA SP-235, p.125.

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429 a
“Bean is hammering a double core tube at a geology stop near Halo Crater using the flat of the hammer. Because of the stiffness of the suit, it is difficult to control the swing and, by using the flat, he is more certain of actually hitting the top of the extension handle. Bean is wearing a “saddlebag” on his left hip, with a pack of flat sample bags attached at the back” (ALSJ caption for AS12-49- 7286).

133:25:33 Bean: Want to take a picture?
133:25:34 Conrad: Yep. (Garbled)
133:25:36 Bean: I can shove it in a little. I hope this is a good soft place.
133:25:39 Conrad: Yeah.
133:25:41 Bean: It seems to be. Oh, I hit something solid there. (To Houston) Well, I used all my weight, Houston, and shoved it in about seven inches. Now, I’ll just pound on it a while and see what we can do. (Pause) It (seems to) be going in okay. Yeah. It’s going on down.

429 b
Bean took this panoramic view at a geology stop located about twenty meters south of Halo Crater, a 6m wide crater located to the South of Surveyor Crater’s rim (the crew had difficulty locating the crater and settled instead near a group of small craters).
Conrad is wearing his tongs and is carrying his scoop.
This was their last stop before arriving at the location of Surveyor 3.
Bean had to use Conrad’s camera because of a malfunction and lunar dust on his own Hasselblad.

133:36:08 Gibson (Mission Control): Have you gotten the panorama?
133:36:15 Conrad: No, I’m going to get Al to do that right now. He’s using my camera. His camera’s had it. With the handle off it and everything, by the time we got done handling it, we got dirt all over the lens. We run out of film; we happen to have another magazine with us, or we could...
133:36:34 Bean: ...Don’t change that; we just took that one off.
133:36:36 Conrad: Well, we could do that or...
133:36:37 Bean: Of course, we don’t want to, but if we have to, I guess we can. Okay. Let me start this pan.
133:36:42 Conrad: Seventy-four (feet focus).
133:36:44 Bean: Seventy-four it is. f/11, 250. Okay.472