Apollo 12

Facts

Lunar Module:	Intrepid
Command and Service Module:	Yankee Clipper
Crew:	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 Returned:	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
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).
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.