Topic: Apollo 12 landing and EVA recreation (video)
Buel Member
Posts: 837 From: UK Registered: Mar 2012
posted 06-30-2022 04:10 PM
Just seen this video from Hazegrayart. I wonder how accurate it is?
Thoughts from those more knowledgeable than I are welcome.
Apollo 12 launched on November 14, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit.
On November 19, Conrad and Bean achieved a precise landing at their expected location within walking distance of the Surveyor 3 robotic probe, which had landed on April 20, 1967.
Based on LROC Temporal Traverse data.
SkyMan1958 Member
Posts: 1223 From: CA. Registered: Jan 2011
posted 06-30-2022 05:59 PM
Very cool!!! I hope they do an EVA 2 and a liftoff too.
NukeGuy Member
Posts: 90 From: Irvine, CA USA Registered: May 2014
posted 06-30-2022 11:15 PM
This doesn’t sound at all like the Apollo 12 crew. Sounds like Apollo 17.
Rick Mulheirn Member
Posts: 4482 From: England Registered: Feb 2001
posted 07-01-2022 03:16 AM
Excellent…. Though the touchdown is Apollo 17. But that doesn’t detract in my opinion.
Buel Member
Posts: 837 From: UK Registered: Mar 2012
posted 07-01-2022 04:40 AM
Hmmm... so is it the landing AND audio that is Apollo 17?
Blackarrow Member
Posts: 3490 From: Belfast, United Kingdom Registered: Feb 2002
posted 07-04-2022 05:09 PM
The audio is definitely from the Apollo 17 landing, which is baffling in a video about Apollo 12. I might add that the actual audio from the Apollo 12 landing is wonderfully animated and exhilarating, as might be expected coming from Pete Conrad and Al Bean. Why not use the Real McCoy?
Furthermore, at the start of this video, the date of the Apollo 12 lunar landing is given as "November 24th." I don't wish to seem unduly harsh, but basic research would have established that the Apollo 12 landing actually took place on November 19th.
David C Member
Posts: 1357 From: Lausanne Registered: Apr 2012
posted 07-05-2022 02:58 PM
Interesting. I haven’t done any measurements, but my gut feeling is that it doesn’t look quite right either.
Captain Apollo Member
Posts: 328 From: UK Registered: Jun 2004
posted 07-06-2022 05:02 AM
Looking at the LRO images of the Apollo 12 site, the astronauts in this video do seem to walk too far a distance.
bernoullis Member
Posts: 15 From: UK Registered: Feb 2009
posted 08-15-2022 05:42 AM
You may be surprised when you have a look at the following planimetric map, created by Brian McInall for the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. I think you will find that Conrad and Bean walked notable distances on their two EVA periods:
Various other Apollo 12 planimetric maps by Brian McInall can be accessed here.
See also Figure 10-50 from the 'Apollo 12 Preliminary Science Report':
Regarding the video itself, it is a very creative idea but, as others here have stated, it seems rather odd that the creator would use the Apollo 17 touchdown audio, when the Apollo 12 touchdown audio is freely available! Puzzling.
posted 06-30-2022 04:10 PM
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