Col. Al Worden, USAF Ret., the Apollo 15 command module pilot and Apollo 12 backup crew, discusses the new Astronaut Al Worden Endeavour Scholarship and the Apollo 12 mission to the Moon in November 1969 with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian at the Dubai Air Show 2019. Our coverage was sponsored by Leonardo DRS. Col. Worden, 88, passed away on March 18, 2020, after a brief illness.
Joseph Vick, the manager of museum education at the US Space & Rocket Center, discusses the Mobile Quarantine Facility used by Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad, Al Bean and Dick Gordon after their mission to the Moon with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian in Huntsville, Ala. The three spent two weeks in the modified Airstream trailer to ensure that potential diseases from the lunar surface didn’t contaminate planet Earth. Apollo missions 11, 12 and 14 astronauts that made it to the Moon used the mobile facilities immediately after landing — entering the trailer after splashdown aboard USS Hornet through return to the United States — until scientists concluded that the precaution was unnecessary.