Apollo 12

Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the American Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon (an H type mission). It was launched on November 14, 1969 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, four months after Apollo 11. Mission commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit. The... More

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  • 10 days (Nov 14, 1969 — Nov 24, 1969)

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  • 10 days (Nov 14, 1969 — Nov 24, 1969)
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