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Apollo 12 Crewmembers - Greeting - Family - Arrival - Ellington AFB (EAFB), TX

1969-11-29

NASA

NASA
Washington, DC, United States

S69-60759 (29 Nov. 1969) --- Members of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission's crew are greeted by their wives and children at the front of a large crowd on hand to welcome the three home. The Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF), with the crew inside, arrived at Ellington Air Force Base aboard a United States Air Force C-141 transport jet in the early morning hours of Nov. 29, 1969. The crew men, looking out the MQF window at the crowd, are from left to right, astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr. and Alan L. Bean. Their wives are, from left to right, Mrs. Barbara Gordon, Mrs. Jane Conrad and Mrs. Sue Bean. The women are wearing lei's, an Hawaiian tradition. The crew members were taken to Hawaii from their Pacific Ocean recovery site aboard the USS Hornet, prime recovery vessel for the mission.

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  • Title: Apollo 12 Crewmembers - Greeting - Family - Arrival - Ellington AFB (EAFB), TX
  • Date Created: 1969-11-29
  • Rights: JSC
  • Album: rlobrie1

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