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Apollo 12 launched today 55 years ago. NASA has marked the 55th anniversary of Apollo 12 - world's second manned mission to the Moon. Astronauts Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., Alan Bean and Richard Gordon Jr. blasted off to the Moon on November 14 on the Saturn V rocket, which ran into trouble in its first minute post lift off.
On the second day the astronauts were on the moon, pictures emerged of a massacre at a town called My Lai. Muir-Harmony believes this is the real reason Apollo 12 never got much attention.
In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles “Pete” Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Alan L. Bean completed the second crewed lunar landing mission. Conrad and Bean achieved a pinpoint landing in the Ocean of Storms within walking distance of the Surveyor 3 spacecraft that landed there in April 1967.
The effect of the Apollo 12 camera failure, combined with these bizarre attempts to mock-up a Moonwalk, would later fuel conspiracy theories that men never really walked on the Moon.
Shortly after re-emerging from the backside of the Moon after entering lunar orbit, the Apollo 12 astronauts turned on their color TV camera and treated viewers on the ground to a 33-minute guided tour of the surface as they made their first pass across the Moon’s front side.
Shortly after being launched on a rainy day at Kennedy Space Center, Apollo 12 was twice struck by lightning, causing instrumentation problems but little damage. Switching to the auxiliary power supply resolved the data relay problem, saving the mission.
It changed Apollo 12’s trajectory to prepare for later insertion into a non-free-return lunar orbit—the first “hybrid” trajectory in Apollo flights. The spacecraft slowed so that it would arrive with the most desirable solar illumination on the selected Site 7.
On this date in 1969, Apollo 12 landed on the surface of the moon. But it seems this moon mission is overshadowed by the more famous Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 landings. But why?
No clouds were going to stop NASA from launching Apollo 12 on the second manned mission to the Moon.
For the first time, lunar dust tracked into the LM became a problem. Since the dust became weightless after liftoff from the Moon, the astronauts had trouble breathing without their helmets. For the first time, the LM was fired back toward the Moon after its occupants returned to the CSM.