Apollo 12 astronauts had pictures of PLAYBOY Bunnies strapped to their wrists as they hopped about on the Moon after commander pranked them
A fellow astronaut put the nude pictures in NASA checklists as a prank
NASA astronauts had pictures of Playboy Bunnies strapped to their wrists when they bounced around the surface of the Moon - because one of the commanders had a naughty sense of humour.
Charles Conrad and Alan Bean were amazed to find Miss September and Miss October 1967 of the then wildly-popular nudey mag on their checklists during the 1969 Apollo 12 mission.
When they discovered the rude pics after riding a lunar lander down to the moon's Ocean of Storms they showed each other and burst into laughter - but didn't mention it because they thought the tax-paying public wouldn't want porn discussed during such an important scientific endeavour.
Dave Scott, the backup commander for Apollo 12, thought it would be a wheeze to insert the topless beauties into the little wire-bound flip books that contained a checklist of everything the space pioneers had to do during the time-sensitive mission.
The prankster even printed them on NASA's fireproof, plastic-coated paper.
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The pictures of Angela Dorian and Reagan Wilson were accompanied by cheeky comments like "seen any interesting hills and valleys?", "preferred tether partner" and "survey - her activity".
In an interview with Playboy 25 years later in 1994, Bean said: "It was about two and a half hours into the extravehicular activity. I flipped the page over and there she was.
"I hopped over to where Pete was and showed him mine, and he showed me his.
"We giggled and laughed so much that people accused us of being drunk or having 'space rapture'."
Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the Apollo programme and the second to land on the Moon.
