Remembering the Space Age. - Black Vault Radio Network (BVRN)

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Unaltered Buzz Aldrin Apollo 11 portrait: July 20, 1969. (Neil Armstrong/NASA)
their variety, description, and aesthetics. 14 Specifcally, bean’s photograph of
Conrad along side, the Surveyor 3 spacecraft with their lunar module in the
background documents the frst evidence in one location, of human and robotic
exploration on a celestial body. 15 bean’s photograph of Conrad—their LeM in
14. the frst four frames of apollo 12’s magazine “Y” by alan bean of pete Conrad ofers the most
distinctive (color) sequence of an apollo astronaut descending the Lunar excursion Module
(LeM) to the surface of the Moon of any of the six manned landings.
15. See apollo 12 flm magazine “x”: aS12-48-7133 in the apollo 12 fight photography at the
Lunar and planetary Institute apollo Image atlas – 70mm hasselblad Image catalog, http://www.
lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/catalog/70mm/mission/?12.