Houston, we have a podcast.

Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center, episode 121, Apollo 17.

I'm Gary Jordan. I'll be your host today.

On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, and astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight.

We are in the middle of celebrating 50 years of the Apollo program.

This summer 2019 we focused on Apollo... 50 years of the Apollo program.

This summer 2019 we focused on Apollo 11 as we passed 50 years since the first

landing of humans on the moon.

Just recently we passed 50 years since Apollo 12,

where Pete Conrad and Alan Bean

became the next two men on the moon

on November 19, 1969, while Richard Gordon

flew solo in the command module.

Not a smooth ride to get there either,

as the Saturn V was famously struck by lightning

during ascent on November 14th.

An eCom John Aaron in Mission Control suggested switching, quote,

SCE to Ox. No one quite knew what that meant. But they did it. It worked.

And the crew were able to navigate to the moon with Conrad saying whoopi as his first word as he

exited the lunar module first onto the lunar surface.

Conrad and Bean conducted two spacewalks, set up some science experiments, took color video,

collected rocks and pieces of the Surveyor 3 probe that landed on the surface more than two years prior.

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