Human Spaceflight
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Apollo 12 was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, by NASA from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, landing on the part of the Moon called the Ocean of Storms on November 19, 1969. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean completed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit.
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Launch
- Launch date
- March 3, 1969 at 04:00 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Saturn V →
- Operator
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- Mission
- Apollo 9
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 171 km
- Periapsis
- 171 km
- Inclination
- 33.64°
- Orbital period
- 87.92 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1969-018D
- NORAD catalog №
- 3780
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- March 22, 1969
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- March 22, 1969
- Time in service
- 19 days
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed