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[Apollo 12]

Apollo 12 Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean’s Lunar Surface Flown Bio Assembly Cable

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[APOLLO 12]

LMP AL BEAN'S BIOMEDICAL HARNESS WORN DURING ALL CRITICAL POINTS OF THE APOLLO 12 MISSIONS INCLUDING LAUNCH, LUNAR LANDING, BOTH MOONWALKS AND RE-ENTRY

FLOWN Apollo 12 biomedical harness consisting of one auxillary harness with two orange covered wires connected to single yellow DC-DC jack, each wire connected to a plastic and aluminum sensor with one sensor labelled "P/N SHB 42100121-202 " and stamped with NASA MSC number1035; and a sternal harness comprised of two orange- coated wires connected to a blue DC-DC jack, one wire with single plastic and aluminum sensor and brown plastic wire cover labelled "SN-1019," the other wire with two plastic and aluminum sensors each with brown plastic wire cover, one labelled "SHB-42100120-209."

Originally from the personal collection of Apollo 12 LMP Alan Bean, with accompanying letter signed by ALAN BEAN on his personal illustrated letterhead.

Originally from the Personal Collection of Apollo 12 Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean

"MY BIOMED HARNESS PERFORMED FLAWLESSLY THROUGHOUT THE APOLLO 12 MISSION, INCLUDING AS I WALKED, RAN AND WORKED ON MY TWO MOONWALKS." — ALAN BEAN.

This section of Bean's biomedical harness was worn underneath his inflight coverall garment or spacesuit. The sensors monitored his heart and respiratory rate. The data collected by these sensors was then routed through a radio transceiver and antenna in his Portable Life Support System to the Apollo 12 spacecraft's communication system. Mission Control received this biomedical data from the spacecraft and would be able to notify the astronauts immediately in the event of a medical emergency.

Alan Bean’s provenance letter reads, in full:

“I hereby certify that the accompanying biomed harness, with five sensors, was the one I wore on my body during launch, descent to the Ocean of Storms, on both moonwalks, liftoff from the Moon to rendezvous with our orbiting Command Module, and entry back at Planet Earth.

My biomed harness performed flawlessly throughout the Apollo 12 mission, including as I walked, ran and worked on my two moonwalks.

This biomed harness has been in my personal collection since I returned to Earth. ALAN BEAN”

LITERATURE

Apollo Stowage List Mission AS-507 CM 108/LM-6. Apollo 12. November 18, 1969. Houston, Texas: Manned Spacecraft Center, 1969, p. 73, section B, item #0203.