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The 3 Apollo 12 astronauts look through the window of the Mobile Quarantine Facility after their return to Earth

Apollo 12 Crewmembers – Greeting – Family – Arrival – Ellington AFB (EAFB), TX

S69-60760 (29 Nov. 1969) --- Members of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission's crew talk to their families from inside the Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF) soon after their arrival at Ellington Air Force Base aboard a United States Air Force C-141 transport jet in the early morning hours of Nov. 29, 1969. The crew men, looking out the MQF window at the crowd, are from left to right, astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr., and Alan L. Bean. Some of the family members can be seen in lower right foreground. The crew members were taken to Hawaii from their Pacific Ocean recovery site aboard the USS Hornet, prime recovery vessel for the mission.

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