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Apollo 12 Mission

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 November 14, 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.

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  1. Apollo 12: Self-Portrait
    Apollo 12 : Self-Portrait

    Sat, 21 Jan 2006

    In November of 1969, Apollo 12 astronaut-photographer Charles "Pete" Conrad recorded this masterpiece while documenting colleague Alan Bean's lunar soil

  2. Moon - Western Near Side
    Moon - Western Near Side

    Mon, 17 Jan 2005

    diameter) in the central part, and the heavily cratered lunar highlands in the bottom of the image. The landing sides of the Apollo 12 , 14 and 15 missions lie within the central part of the image. Samples returned from these sites will be used to calibrate

  3. Apollo 12 in 3D
    Apollo 12 in 3D

    Tue, 12 Oct 2004

    This stereo picture finds Apollo 12 astronaut Pete Conrad standing on the lunar surface near the southern rim of Surveyor Crater in November of 1969. With red/blue

  4. An Apollo 12 Panorama
    An Apollo 12 Panorama

    Fri, 2 Jan 2004

    The Apollo 12 mission was the second ever to land humans on the Moon . The mission waspanorama where flat lunar terrain and a tall video camera are visible. Apollo 12 mission astronauts visited the site of the nearby Surveyor 3 robot spacecraft

  5. Apollo 12: Self-Portrait
    Apollo 12 : Self-Portrait

    Wed, 16 Jul 2003

    Is it art? In November of 1969, Apollo 12 astronaut-photographer Charles Pete Conrad recorded this masterpiece while documenting colleague Alan Bean's lunar soil collection

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  1. LRO Takes First Look At Apollo 12 Landing Site
    LRO Takes First Look AtApollo 12 Landing Site

    Sat, 5 Sep 2009Text

    Four months after the success of Apollo 11, NASA launched Apollo 12 in November 1969. Almost exactly 40 years later, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has seen the landing site. ……safety constraints in place for these earliest manned lunar missions dictated landing Apollo 12 at an equatorial site on a flat lava plain (known as maria on the moon). NASA selected a site near where the ……In all, the Apollo 12 crew returned over 32 kg (more than 60 lbs) of lunar samples. From these precious samples scientists learned that the Copernicus crater …

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ARTICLES (48)

  1. Microwaving Water From Moondust
    Microwaving Water From Moondust

    Thu, 8 Oct 2009

    …some measurements for team on the gas permeability of compacted lunar soil. By Dauna Coulter, Science @ NASA --- Image 1: Apollo 12 astronaut Alan Bean holds up a thermos full of moondust. Could this be transformed into a thermos of moonwater? NASA scientists …

  2. Indican Pictures Presents THE WONDER OF IT ALL Opening July 24th 2009 in Select Cities Throughout the U.S.

    Tue, 21 Jul 2009

    …WHO: Buzz Aldrin(Astronaut, second man to walk on the Moon -- Apollo 11) Alan Bean(Astronaut, walked on Moon -- Apollo 12 ) Eugene Cernan(Astronaut, last man to walk on Moon -- Apollo 17) Charlie Duke(Astronaut, USAF Brigadier General …

  3. Orbiter returns images of moon landing

    Fri, 17 Jul 2009

    …captured from a low sun angle. The orbiter's camera captured images of five of the six Apollo landing sites with the remaining Apollo 12 site expected to be photographed in coming weeks, NASA said. The orbiter captured the Apollo sites July 11-15. Future …