Apollo 12

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Apollo 12 （November 14 – 24, 1969） 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, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit.
Apollo 12 would have attempted the first lunar landing had Apollo 11 failed, but after the success of Neil Armstrong's mission, Apollo 12 was postponed by two months, and other Apollo missions also put on a more relaxed schedule.
More time was allotted for geologic training in preparation for Apollo 12 than for Apollo 11, Conrad and Bean making several geology field trips in preparation for their mission.
Apollo 12's spacecraft and launch vehicle were almost identical to Apollo 11's.
One addition was hammocks to allow Conrad and Bean to rest more comfortably on the Moon.
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.
The outward journey to the Moon otherwise saw few problems.
On November 19, Conrad and Bean achieved a precise landing at their expected location within walking distance of the Surveyor 3 robotic probe, which had landed on April 20, 1967.
In making a pinpoint landing, they showed that NASA could plan future missions in the expectation that astronauts could land close to sites of scientific interest.
Conrad and Bean carried the Apollo Lunar Surface Experime...