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Apollo 12
Mission Summary
Mission Objectives
Apollo 12 Facts
Apollo 12 Crew
Spacecraft
Landing Site
Images
Audio/Video
The Apollo Program |
| Lunar Module: |
Intrepid |
| Command and Service
Module: |
Yankee Clipper
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| Crew:
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Charles Conrad, Jr, commander
Richard F. Gordon, command module pilot
Alan Bean, lunar module pilot |
| Launch: |
November 14, 1969
16:22:00 UTT (11:22:00 a.m. EST)
Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A |
| Landing
Site: |
Oceanus Procellarum - Ocean of Storms
(3.01S, 23.42W) (site 7) |
| Landed on Moon: |
November 19, 1969
6:54:35 UT ( 1:54:35 a.m. EST) |
| EVA duration: |
7 hr. 45 min.
[EVA 1: 3 hr. 55 min., EVA 2: 3 hr. 50 min.] |
| Moon Rocks Collected: |
34.4 kilograms |
| LM Departed Moon: |
November 20, 1969
14:25:47 UT (9:25:47 a.m. EST) |
| Time on Lunar Surface: |
31 hr. 31 min. |
| Returned to Earth: |
November 24, 1969
splashdown 20:58:24 UT ( 3:58:24 p.m. EST) |
| Mission Duration: |
244 hr 36 min 24 sec. |
| Retrieval site: |
Pacific Ocean 15° 47' S, 165°
9' W |
| Retrieval ship: |
U.S.S. Hornet |
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Special Payload:
- Flags from 136 nations, the UN, 50 states and four U.S. possessions
were aboard the lunar module.
- Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP), color TV camera,
seismometer, electric generator (plutonium power source).
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Highlights/Notes:
- Saturn rocket hit by lightning twice, 32 sec. and 52 sec. after
launch temporarily cutting electrical power and telemetry.
- TV camera was damaged shortly after Moon landing.
- Extensive EVAs, second covering approx. 1300 meters.
- Crew examined Surveyor III spacecraft which landed on Moon 2.5
years previous and returned some of its instruments to Earth.
- After leaving Moon, LM crashed into lunar surface creating first
recorded artificial earthquake.
- The crew remained in quarantine for 21 days from completion
of the second EVA.
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