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A Mobile Quarantine Facility (MQF), with the crew of the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission aboard, arrived at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC, now Johnson Space Center) Saturday morning, November 29, 1969. Astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr., and Alan L. Bean were on their way to the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) where they remained in quarantine until December 10, 1969. Minutes earlier the three astronauts had arrived at Ellington Air Force Base from Hawaii aboard a U.S. Air Force C-141 transport. The crewmen were confined to the MQF from splashdown until they arrived at the LRL.