Apollo 12

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Apollo 12

Launched: 14 November 1969

Landed: 18 November 1969, Ocean of Storms

Splashed Down: 24 November 1969

Crew:

Charles 'Pete' Conrad Jr

Richard F Gordon

Alan L Bean

This was an exercise of precision targeting. The Lunar Module Intrepid was brought to the surface of the moon automatically by radar and computer, needing only a few manual corrections by the pilot Pete Conrad. It landed only 183 metres from its target in the Ocean of Storms, where the old Surveyor 3 robot spacecraft had soft-landed on the surface of the moon back in 1967.

Conrad and Bean brought back pieces of the old Surveyor and took two moon walks, each lasting almost four hours, during which they set up seismic and magnetism experiments and some experiments to test the effects of the solar wind. When the crew, back aboard the Command Module 'Yankee Clipper', launched the LM's ascent stage into the moon, the seismometers they had left behind recorded the vibrations of its impact for over an hour. They had such a good time that they stayed an extra day in lunar orbit taking pictures.

Mission details:

Apollo-12 (28)

Pad 39-A (6)

Saturn-V AS-507

High Bay 3

MLP 2

Firing Room 2

Payload:

Yankee Clipper (CM-108) and Intrepid (LM-6)

Launch:

14 November1969

Orbits:

Duration: 10 Days, 04 hours, 36 min, seconds

Lunar Location: Ocean of Storms

Lunar Coords: 3.04 degrees South, 23.42 degrees West

Landing:

24 November 1969

Mission Highlights:

Landing site: Ocean of Storms. Retrieved parts of the unmanned Surveyor 3, which had landed on the Moon in April 1967. Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) deployed. Lunar surface stay-time, 31.5 hours; in lunar orbit 89 hours, with 45 orbits. LM descent stage impacted on Moon. 34kgs of material collected

Collecting rocks on the Apollo 12 mission

Apollo Programme

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