Charles Conrad and Alan Bean become the 3rd and 4th person to walk on the Moon- 11/19/1969

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Natalie Shockley, Fall Editor

In the year of 1969 Charles Conrad and Alan Bean became the 3rd and 4th person to walk on the Moon.

On November 19th, The Kennedy Space Center in Florida launched the sixth manned flight to the Moon. There was one other person to attend this flight besides Conrad and Bean, and his name was Richard F. Gordon Jr.. He remained in lunar orbit while the other two were in lunar surface activity.

Their mission was located in the southeastern portion of the Ocean of Storms. The mission lasted ten days, four hours, thirty six minutes and twenty four seconds. When the three astronauts landed their spacecraft was recovered by the USS Hornet.