Ah, so they set out with two b&w magazines on the cameras for EVA 2... Why two b&w's instead of one color or *two* color mags? Were they out of color film? Were they told to take only b&w? If a camera with a color magazine jammed would/could they have swapped the magazines out on the surface considering the intensity of the sunlight? I have always been amazed that on a mission designed to return maximum data per buck that pics of the only spacecraft humans have rendezvoused with on another heavenly body were only taken in b&w.
The photograph of the Surveyor 3 footpad is a classic, but doesn't quite tell the whole story. Yes, the vehicle bounced a bit on final touchdown, but the *real* bouncing happened further upslope as it skittered down into the crater. So far as I know, no signs of the earlier bounces were to be seen in any of the mission photography. The final jitter as it landed was just a baby bounce!
Where exactly was the intended landing site of Intrepid ("Pete's Parking Lot") in relation to where it actually touched down?Thank you.
Another piece of Apollo 12 trivia. While filling the Apollo 12 spacecraft fuel cell hydrogen tank, the day before launch, crews discovered a leak. On November 13, 1969 they swapped out the leaking fuel cell hydrogen tank and replaced it with the fuel cell hydrogen tank from the Apollo 13 spacecraft. Good thing they didn't need one of Apollo 13's fuel cell oxygen tanks. Yikes!Prescott Evening Courier - Nov 13, 1969http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YKdMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z1ADAAAAIBAJ&pg=5006%2C6197597