Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon, and Al Bean went back to the moon. It was the second manned touchdown mission. And the first boring one.
The number of interesting blunders and mishaps on this mission is pretty remarkable. It's a fun one to research, which I highly recommend. The treatment of this mission in Tom Hanks' excellent miniseries From the Earth to the Moon is a story not to be missed.
We visited the Virginia Science Center in Summer, 2010. We also visited the National Air & Space Museum in D.C., which has far more recognizable relics, but not nearly the access to them as you can get here. I recommend a visit highly.
Click here to see my Flickr album of our visit.
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