CONRAD (Explaining some AP12 photos to the journalists) - "You can see from those footprints (that) right here the ground was fairly soft and the...We sank in quite a ways and it became very apparent to us that it was going to be very difficult to keep the (ALSEP) package clean. I think there you can see the bottom of that one package is quite dirty over there.

"I guess the other thing Al learned very rapidly was that one of our simulations didn't quite work the same. The first time Al tried to pick up the package, the package picked him up and I looked around and he was sort of halfway airborn and the package was still firmly planted on the lunar surface."

BEAN - "That's funny. You run through these two EVAs that are 4 hours each and you really never look back. You've got something to do and, just as soon as you do it, you tend to put it aside and start the next one. You forget a lot of funny things that happened when you're out there trying to make this hardware work. That was one of them."

CONRAD - "I unfortunately didn't get a picture of that. That would have been the world's greatest picture with Al halfway in the air and the package still on the ground."