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Apollo 12 entered a lunar orbit of 170.2 by 61.66 nautical miles (315.2 by 114.2 km; 195.9 by 70.96 mi) with an SPS burn of 352.25 seconds at mission time 83:25:26.36. On the first lunar orbit, there was a television transmission that resulted in good-quality video of the lunar surface.
On Nov. 18, two orbits later and again on the far side of the moon, a second lunar orbit insertion burn altered Apollo 12 to an orbit of 62 by 76 miles. It was calculated to eventually circularize for the orbit of the solo CSM due to lunar-gravity potential.
Apollo 12 left lunar orbit after 3 days 17 hours and 2 minutes. As they rounded from the back side of the Moon, Conrad radioed to Mission Control, “Hello, Houston. Apollo 12’s en route home.” They had already set up the color TV camera and began transmitting views of the rapidly receding Moon.
NASA. The Apollo 12 Lunar Module (LM), in a lunar landing configuration, is photographed in orbit from the Command and Service Modules (CSM). The coordinates of the center of the lunar surface shown in picture are 4.5 degrees west longitude and 7 degrees south latitude.
Altogether, Apollo 12 spent 3.7 days in lunar orbit, circling the Moon 45 times. The crew returned safely to Earth on November 24, 1969 after a flight of 10 days and 4 hours. Official NASA Apollo 12 Mission Description. Apollo 12 Lunar Surface Journal EVA Transcripts. Apollo 12 Lunar Samples.
Apollo 12 was the second crewed mission to land on the moon. The mission lifted off on Nov. 14, 1969, a little less than four months after two members of the Apollo 11 crew became the first...
Instead of being sent into a solar orbit by the Moon’s gravitational field after separating from the LM, Apollo 12’s S-IVB flew past the Moon at too high an altitude, caused by an error in...
The Apollo 12 lunar landing occurred at 1:54:35 a.m. EST on November 19, 1969 in the Ocean of Storms. The landing took place less than 600 feet from the Surveyor 3 spacecraft, which had made a soft landing on the Moon on April 20, 1967. Astronauts Conrad and Bean performed two Moonwalks.
J002E3 is an object in space which is thought to be the S-IVB third stage of the Apollo 12 Saturn V rocket. It was discovered on September 3, 2002, by amateur astronomer Bill Yeung . Initially thought to be an asteroid , it has since been tentatively identified as the third stage of Apollo 12 Saturn V based on spectrographic evidence consistent ...
This visualization shows the Apollo 12 landing site in three dimensions using photography and a stereo digital elevation model from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. The locations of the flag’s shadow, experiment package, astronaut paths, and the Surveyor 3 spacecraft are marked.