Editing Apollo 12 (section)

===Splashdown===
''Yankee Clipper'' returned to Earth on November 24, 1969, splashing down in the South Pacific Ocean southeast of [[Samoa]] at 244:36:25 (20:58:24&nbsp;UTC, 10:58:24{{nbsp}}am{{nbsp}}[[Hawaii–Aleutian Time Zone|HST]], local time at the landing site). The landing was hard, resulting in a camera becoming dislodged and striking Bean in the forehead. After recovery by {{USS|Hornet|CV-12|6}}, they entered the [[Mobile Quarantine Facility]] (MQF), while lunar samples and Surveyor parts were sent ahead by air to the [[Lunar Receiving Laboratory]] (LRL) in Houston. Once the ''Hornet'' docked in Hawaii, the MQF was offloaded and flown to [[Ellington Air Force Base]] near Houston on November 29, from where it was taken to the LRL, where the astronauts remained until released from quarantine on December 10.{{sfn|Orloff & Harland 2006|pp=338–339}}<ref>{{cite web|access-date=January 27, 2021|publisher=[[NASA]]|date=November 25, 2019|title=50 Years Ago: Apollo 12 Return to Houston|url=https://www.nasa.gov/feature/50-years-ago-apollo-12-return-to-houston}}</ref>