Our trip about curiosity and oddities about Apollo mission on the Moon.

Today it's the turn of the second mission, in November 1969, the apollo 12. The crew was composed by Alan Bean, Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon. Once down from the LEM, Alan Bean immediately cited his predecessor Neil Armstrong, saying

"Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me."

Even thought it was only the second mission with humans on the Moon, there was not only one EVA (Extra-Vehicular Activity, basically the set of operations accomplished on lunar soil), but 2! The first on 19th of November, the second on day after, both about 3 hours and 50 minutes long. Great success also for another important discover:

Accomplishing an EVA, one of the activity consists of previous mission equipment, as landers or instruments. On the Surveyor 3, a lander sent to check the environment conditions on the Moon, a bacterium was found on a gasket of this lander... This bacterium has survived for over 2 years on the Moon! Absolutely unbelievable, but not all went in the right way...

Imagine that you has been chosen for a mission, you has landed on the Moon and you took a brand new color camera for TV broadcasting! You're so excited but you are a strong man and you cannot do any mistake! This was the condition which Alan Bean was in.. He took this camera but unfortunately set it up exactly in sunlight direction!! The Vidicon tube of the camera damaged immediately (on the Moon there is no atmosphere, therefore no shields for anything) 

Well done, Alan XD (watch the "disaster" in THIS VIDEO) 

To be continued with Apollo 13