Apollo 12 was the sixth manned mission in the Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. The mission was commanded by Charles "Pete" Conrad. It was launched on 14 November 1969, four months after Apollo 11. Pete Conrad and Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar activity whilst Command Module pilot Richard F Gordon remained in lunar orbit. The landing site for the mission was the Ocean of Storms. Amongst the key ...
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Apollo 12 was the sixth manned mission in the Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. The mission was commanded by Charles "Pete" Conrad. It was launched on 14 November 1969, four months after Apollo 11. Pete Conrad and Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar activity whilst Command Module pilot Richard F Gordon remained in lunar orbit. The landing site for the mission was the Ocean of Storms. Amongst the key objectives of the mission were achievement of a more precise landing (which had not been achieved by Apollo 11), and to visit the Surveyor 3 probe, to bring back a part of it for analysis. The mission ended on November 24 with a successful splashdown having completed all the main mission parameters successfully.
Apollo 12 launched on schedule, during a rainstorm. 36.5 seconds after lift-off from Kennedy Space Center, the vehicle triggered a lightning discharge through itself and down to the earth through the Saturn's ionized plume. Protective...
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