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Apogee Books Space Series #50
Apollo 12: The NASA Mission Reports, Volume 2
The voyage of Apollo 12, documented in these original reports, had high goals in mind—making a start on real lunar science.
192 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2004
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April 21, 2008
Apollo 12, the second manned mission to land on the Moon, was planned and executed as a precision landing. The astronauts landed the Lunar Module within walking distance of the Surveyor III spacecraft which had landed on the Moon in April of 1967. The astronauts brought instruments from Surveyor III back to Earth to examine the effects of long-term exposure to the lunar environment.
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 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
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.
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 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
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.
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