Playmates On The Moon
December, 1994
It was November 19, 1969, just 25 years ago, and four months after Neil Armstrong had bobbed down his lunar ladder. Apollo 12 was racing around the moon with its crew, mission commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, command module pilot Dick Gordon and lunar module pilot Alan Bean. All on board were naval aviators, top pilots who had endured the gut-wrenching snap of an aircraft carrier catapult, and landed a hurtling machine on a heaving ship's deck. All, that is, except a couple of sneak co...
