American actress Victoria Vetri (aka Angela Dorian)

[quote] From Hollywood High to Rosemary's Baby to prison

Also to space. She was one of the first nakkid ladies on the moon.

Apollo 12 was the second Moon landing mission—with commander Pete Conrad and lunar module pilot Alan Bean.

Conrad’s checklist was 34 pages long, Bean’s was 30 pages, each page a 3.5-inch square. The pages—printed on laminated fireproof paper—were assembled into a small spiral-bound book, the little flip-book itself secured around the cuff of the spacesuit glove with a strap. The astronauts did different jobs on the Moon, to maximize the work that could be done, but sometimes they worked together. At the one-hour mark in each checklist is the instruction “deploy flag.”

For Conrad and Bean, the cuff checklists contained a cheekier surprise. Each one had pictures of two Playboy Playmates, the photos taken directly from the magazine, photocopied down to size, put on the special paper, laminated, and secretly bound into the checklists after they had been reviewed by the astronauts. It was orchestrated by Dave Scott, who would go on to command Apollo 15.

Bean was apparently the first to find one of the Playmates in his checklist. Cynthia Myers (Miss December 1969) is about nine pages in, smiling and wearing a Santa hat and nothing else. Beneath her picture is a double entendre for a caption, satirizing one of the Moon chores.

“It was about two and a half hours into the extravehicular activity,” said Bean. “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.”

There’s not a whisper of the discovery on the radio exchanges between Apollo 12 and Mission Control. “We didn’t say anything on the air,” Bean said. “We thought some people back on Earth might become upset if they found out we had Playboy Playmates in our checklists. They would have said, ‘This is where our tax money is going?’ ”

But the astronauts appreciated the gag. “We giggled and laughed so much,” said Conrad, “that people accused us of being drunk or having ‘space rapture.’ ”

The women in Conrad’s checklist were Angela Dorian (Miss September 1967) and Reagan Wilson (Miss October 1967). In Bean’s checklist, Myers, wearing her Santa hat, and Leslie Bianchini (Miss January 1969).