Video: 'Apollo 12 - Moonwalking (Full Mission 17)' (Conrad's first steps on Moon at 15:25)

(Wednesday, November 19, 1969, 6:44:22 a.m. EST/Monday, July 21, 1969, 11:44:22 UTC Coordinated Universal Time) — A third person from Earth set foot on the Moon today as American astronaut Charles “Pete” Conrad, commander of the Apollo 12 manned mission, climbed down the lunar module’s ladder and said, “Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me.”

Astronaut Alan L. Bean joined Conrad on the surface about 29 minutes later, becoming the fourth person to walk on the Moon.

The two men followed astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, who became the first and second humans to walk on the moon on July 19, 1969. Armstrong had described his first step onto the lunar surface, broadcast on live TV to a worldwide audience, as “one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.”

Conrad and Bean landed the lunar module Intrepid at the northern edge of the crater Mare Cognitum within the Oceanus Procellarum (“Ocean of Storms”) area, at 06:54:35 UTC (1:54:35 a.m. EST).

Richard F. Gordon remained in orbit, piloting the mothership Yankee Clipper.

The landing was made to come close to the Surveyor 3 lunar probe that had arrived on the Moon two years and seven months earlier, on April 19, 1967, and set down only 660 feet away.

A plan to televise live color images from the Moon was ruined after Bean accidentally pointed the camera at the Sun, burning out the imaging tube.