Launch from Cape Canaveral (
KSC); landing 735 km
southeast of Pogo-Pogo- slands in the Pacific Ocean.
Second manned
lunar landing. After landing in Ocean of Storm
Conrad and
Bean
performed several scientific work on the lunar surface. They also deployed an
S-band antenna, solar wind composition experiment, the American flag and most
important, the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (
ALSEP)
with a SNAP-27 atomic generator. This was done during the first
EVA on November
19, 1969 (3 h 56m). Second
EVA on November
20, 1969 (3h 49m) in which different samples were collected and photographic
panoramas were obtained. Failure of the TV camera, when it was pointed at the
sun. They retrieved parts of the unmanned Surveyor 3, which had landed on the
lunar surface on April 20, 1967. All in all 34,4 km of material gathered. After
31,5 hours on the lunar surface launch to the Command Module Yankee Clipper
with
Gordon in the moon orbit.
Gordon had completed a lunar multispectral photography
experiment and photographed proposed future landing sites during that time.
The crew was recovered by "
USS Hornet".