Apollo 12 was the second mission to land astronauts on the Moon, launched from Cape Kennedy in Florida in November 1969, four months after Apollo 11. The crew were Charles Pete Conrad, Alan Bean and Richard Gordon, who stayed in lunar orbit while the other two descended. The Saturn V was struck by lightning twice shortly after liftoff, but the crew restored power and continued. Conrad and Bean made a precise landing in the Ocean of Storms, near the unmanned Surveyor 3 probe, and removed parts of it for study back on Earth. They set up scientific instruments, made two moonwalks and returned safely.
Before and after
- 22 October 1969Discovery of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko
- 29 October 1969Invention of Internet
- 29 October 1969The first message is sent over ARPANET
- 10 November 1969Premiere of Sesame Street
- 14 November 1969Launch of Apollo 12
- 1 December 1969Publication of Doraemon
- 11 December 1969Birth of Viswanathan Anand
- 28 December 1969Birth of Linus Torvalds
- 30 December 1969Birth of Kersti Kaljulaid
More in Universe & space
- 22 June 1978Discovery of Charon
- 24 April 1990Launch of Hubble Space Telescope
- 1998Supernovae show that cosmic expansion is accelerating
- 20 November 1998Launch of International Space Station
- 10 April 2019The first image of a black hole
- 25 December 2021Launch of James Webb Space Telescope
The era
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