SCE to Auxiliary
Switches Signal Conditioning Equipment to auxiliary power, helping restore usable telemetry after Apollo 12 is struck by lightning.
Role range: 1969-1969
Historical biography archive · Updated 2026-11-03
Alan Bean Biography and Timeline
Follow Alan Bean through 11 dated historical records for United States of America.
Alan Bean, historical timeline
A chronological timeline drawn from matching World History Database records.
11Distinct records
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1969–1973Years on this page
1969
Apollo 12 ALSEP Deployment
Helps deploy the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package during the first Apollo 12 EVA.
Role range: 1969-1969
Apollo 12 First EVA
Explores the Ocean of Storms with Conrad during Apollo 12's first lunar surface excursion.
Role range: 1969-1969
Apollo 12 Landing
Walks on the Moon during Apollo 12.
Role range: 1969-1969
Apollo 12 Solar Wind Spectrometer Operations
Helps deploy the Apollo 12 surface experiment package containing the Solar Wind Spectrometer, which measures the energy, density and direction of arriving solar-wind particles.
Role range: 1969-1969
Apollo 12 Television Camera Failure
Accidentally points the surface television camera toward the Sun, ending its useful transmission.
Role range: 1969-1969
Apollo 12 Lunar Module Ascent
Leaves the Moon with Conrad aboard Intrepid's ascent stage after two surface excursions.
Role range: 1969-1969
Surveyor 3 Component Recovery
Helps remove selected components from Surveyor 3 for return to Earth and laboratory study.
Role range: 1969-1969
Surveyor 3 Visit
Reaches Surveyor 3 with Conrad during the second moonwalk and examines the robotic spacecraft.
Role range: 1969-1969
Apollo 12 Splashdown
Returns to Earth with Conrad and Gordon after the second crewed lunar landing mission.
Role range: 1969-1969
1973
Skylab 3
Flies an Apollo command module to Skylab.
Role range: 1973-1973
Records, sources and methodology
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