In 1969, Apollo 12 began broadcasting from the Moon, but Alan Bean accidentally aimed its camera at the Sun and killed the live TV feed

During the Apollo 12 mission, astronaut Alan Bean mistakenly aimed the color television camera at the sun, leading to ...

NASA left a camera on the moon for 31 months; when Apollo 12 brought it home, scientists found bacteria that appeared to be alive

After 31 months on the moon, a bacterium discovered on the Surveyor III camera is believed to be a case of contamination. A ...

In 1969, an astronaut pointed Apollo 12’s camera at the sun and accidentally killed the live moon broadcast

Imagine finally getting a colour television camera onto the Moon, knowing millions of people back on Earth were waiting to ...

Apollo 12 astronauts returned from the moon so filthy that their pilot made them strip before entering his spacecraft; dust stayed under their nails for weeks

After Apollo 12’s two moonwalks in 1969, command-module pilot Richard Gordon initially refused to let crewmates Charles “Pete ...
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Apollo astronauts’ footprints may stay on the moon almost unchanged, since there is no wind to erase them

More than five decades after the last Apollo crew left the lunar surface, the boot prints they pressed into the regolith remain visible from orbit. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has ...
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Declassified Apollo 12 images show UFOs on the moon — Space photo of the week

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now, more than half a century later, the crew's historic mission is capturing the public's attention again — not because of what ...

During Apollo, NASA fired grenades and crashed abandoned spacecraft into the Moon, measuring the tremors to investigate its hidden interior

Discover how NASA used controlled explosions on the Moon during the Apollo missions to investigate its hidden interior and ...
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Eerie audio of Apollo 12 crew describing mysterious ‘streaks of light’ revealed in new batch of declassified UFO files

The Pentagon released its latest batch of declassified UFO files on Friday — including audio of the Apollo 12 crew describing how they once saw mysterious “streaks of light” while trying to sleep in ...