Clifton Williams
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Clifton Curtis Williams Jr., was an American naval aviator, test pilot, mechanical engineer, major in the United States Marine Corps, and NASA astronaut, who was killed in a plane crash; he never went
Williams c. 1964
Williams training as Gemini 10 backup pilot aboard a KC-135 reduced-gravity aircraft
Williams at the consoles in Mission Control in 1965 during the Gemini 3 mission
Space Mirror Memorial C.C. Williams
Apollo 12
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Apollo 12 was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, by NASA from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, la
Commander Pete Conrad studies the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, which had landed two years previously; the Apollo Lunar Module, Intrepid, can be seen at top right.
Left to right: Conrad, Gordon, BeanApollo program← Apollo 11Apollo 13 →
Conrad and Bean rehearse their lunar surface activities before the mission.
Conrad and Bean in the LM simulator