From left: Conrad, Gordon, Bean

Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the Apollo program and the second to land
on the Moon. It was launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Mission 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. The landing site for the mission was located in the southeastern portion of the Ocean of Storms.

The Apollo 7 crew aboard the U.S.S. Essex, the prime recovery
ship for the mission. From left to right: Walter M. Schirra Jr.,
commander; Donn F. Eisele, command module pilot; Walter
Cunningham, lunar module pilot The crew is pausing in the
doorway of the recovery helicopter.

Apollo 7, launched on October 11th, was the first mission in the United
State’s Apollo program to carry a crew into space. It was also the first
American space flight to carry astronauts into low-Earth orbit after a
cabin fire killed the Apollo 1 crew in 1967. This was the final manned
launch from Cape Kennedy Air Force Station.

Despite tension between the crew and ground controllers, the mission
was a complete technical success, It landed in the North Atlantic Ocean
after its 11-day flight.

         Malcolm Scott Carpenter (May 1, 1925 – October 10, 2013)

(FoxNews) – Scott Carpenter, the fourth U.S. astronaut to fly in space and the
second to orbit the Earth, died Thursday at a Denver hospice.

Carpenter’s wife, Patty, confirmed his death to Fox News. Carpenter, 88, of Vail,
Colo., recently suffered a stroke.

Along with John Glenn, who flew three months before him, Carpenter was one of
the last two surviving original Mercury 7 astronauts for the fledgling U.S. space
program.

He was chosen in 1959 to be one of NASA’s first astronauts and flew on his one
and only space mission on May 24, 1962, circling the Earth three times while
conducting scientific experiments.

As an astronaut and aquanaut who lived underwater for the U.S. Navy, Carpenter
was the first man to explore both the depths of the ocean and the heights of space.

Carpenter gave the famous send-off — "Godspeed, John Glenn" — when Glenn
became the first American in orbit in February 1962.

     Edgar Dean Mitchell, Sc.D. was born in Hereford, Texas

Mitchell is a retired U.S. Navy Captain, pilot and NASA astronaut. As the 
lunar module pilot of Apollo 14, he spent nine hours working on the lunar 
surface, making him the sixth person to walk on the Moon. Mitchell was
awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard Nixon
in 1970.