Pete Conrad was a national treasure RIP.

Gotta love Pete's laugh. Lightning strikes the world's fastest bomb, and he's laughing his ass off. They broke the mold after him.

Pete Conrad-Flying a terrifyingly complex controlled explosion heading off into the most hostile environment imaginable, and Zeus has just took pot-shots at him... and he laughs.

John Aaron made the call of "sce to aux" after noticing the same display readout late at night during a NASA simulation. He saved the mission.

SCE to Aux! Good old John Aaron.

Once again great work! Dick Gordon: "Pete, there's nothin' I can tell is wrong." He says this as calmly as if they were driving in a car at 15 mph and they hear the engine knocking. Talk about cool and composed under pressure.

And now we've lost Al Bean. Indeed, we really are losing our national treasures. The ships may have been made of titanium, aluminum, mylar, and steel. But the men were made of iron. Godspeed, Captain Bean. Thank you for your service, sir.

Pete was one of the best, if not most entertaining astronauts. "Looks like we need more all weather testing!"

It's so refreshing not seeing moon-landing conspiracy comments here. They miss out on such an incredible adventure and period of achievement.

First they were surprised, but quickly acted professional and kept their cool. Once the immediate threat was over, they were so overwhelmed with relief after a near-certainty of a catastrophic failure, as soon as they relaxed their guard, they started laughing hysterically about the mortal shock and relief in such rapid succession.

Its crazy to hear how calmly they sat there and reported issues to Huston. They were all calm and communicating properly. Shows the amazing training astronauts go through

I am glad I was alive and a young man to have lived through this

The AP 12 episode is my favorite of the "From The Earth To The Moon" series!!

Those guys are very funny, but still very pro even when everything goes south, what a crew!

It's easy to go on and on about the very real heroism of Alan Bean, Dick Gordon, and Pete Conrad, but the real hero here was John Aaron, the EECOM who remembered a sim from over a year earlier and then figured out how to fix the problem.

this is the equivalent of things exploding on start trek and everything going off line... The Saturn V was a BEAST!!!

Reading about the Apollo missions, you can tell these three heroes loved being with each other. Not that the other missions had animosity, but their’s was a genuine kinship.

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Classic example of maintaining situational awareness and applying systems knowledge to an ambiguous scenario for which specific training wasn't accomplished prior to the mission...FLY NAVY!

This is just fantastic.I love that static radio quality of the Apollo missions.