407 a
Alan Bean

Panoramic view on the Ocean of Storms taken from the LM window after landing

Apollo 12, November 14-24, 1969, pre-EVA 1, 111:58:43 GET

Unreleased photograph of a hand-made mosaic prepared 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-70-24314” (NASA MSC) [NASA AS12-48-7031 to AS12-48-7032]

407 b
Alan Bean

Pete Conrad descending the LM ladder to walk on the Moon

Apollo 12, November 14-24, 1969, EVA 1, 115:20:07 GET

Unreleased photograph, vintage chromogenic print on fiber-based Kodak paper, 20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in), with “A Kodak Paper” watermarks on the verso, numbered “NASA AS12-46-6716” (NASA MSC) in red in top margin
20.3 x 25.4cm (8 x 10in)

407 b
Schick and Van Haaften, p.101.

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407 a
Bean took this panoramic view from his LMP window of the LM before EVA 1.

111:58:43 Gibson (Mission Control): Intrepid, Houston.
111:58:47 Conrad: Go ahead.
111:58:49 Gibson: Well done, Intrepid. You got a bunch of happy geologists in the back room waiting to go. Say, we’re standing by with a LM consumables update and also standing by for your description (of the view out the window).
111:59:04 Conrad: Okay. We were just working on that and I’m very close to where I want to be, but I’m trying to pin it down exactly.
111:59:15 Gibson: Roger.

407 b
The porch and the lunar surface below are reflected in Pete Conrad’s visor.
His radio antenna by which he communicated with Alan Bean and Mission Control back on Earth is clearly visible.
Alan Bean took the picture from the LM’s cockpit by holding the camera upside-down, at knee height, and guessing at the pointing.

“The first frames of Apollo 12’s magazine 46/Y by Alan Bean of Pete Conrad offers the most distinctive sequence of an Apollo astronaut descending the Lunar Module to the surface
of the Moon of any of the six manned landings” (Dick, Chapter 15).

“I couldn’t get down there, so I just turned the camera upside down and flashed a few. And they all turned out pretty good,” remembered Alan Bean (from the ALSJ mission transcript at 115:20:07 GET).

115:21:24 Conrad: Whew! I’m headed down the ladder.
115:21:26 Bean: Okay; wait. Let me get the old (70 mm Hasselblad) camera on you, babe.
115:21:29 Conrad: Okay. (Long Pause)
115:21:52 Conrad: Man, is that a pretty looking sight, that LM.
115:21:58 Gibson (Mission Control): You’re coming into the picture now, Pete.
115:22:03 Conrad: Okay.
115:22:06 Bean: Okay; got the old (16 mm sequence) camera running.
115:22:09 Conrad: Okay. (Pause) Down to the pad.
115:22:15 Bean: Okay.
115:22:16 Conrad (first words on the Moon): Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me.