Mission of Apollo 12 to The Moon

Forty-three years ago, the United States is sending human missions to the Moon for the second time. The mission was called Apollo 12. According to The History Channel television station, Apollo 12 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Three astronauts Charles Conrad Jr. gliding is., Richard F. Gordon., And Alan L. Bean.

Then U.S. President, Richard Nixon, directly reviewing the launch of the platform Pad A at Cape Canaveral. He was the first U.S. president to witness the launch of direct human-to-month.

Five days after the launch, 19 November 1969, Intrepid capsule that carried a crew of Apollo 12 landed on the Moon in a region, known as the Ocean of Storms. Five hours later, Conrad and Bean astonort a walk on the lunar surface.

The astronauts also took a number of samples of the lunar surface and examine the condition of the capsule unmanned Surveyor 3, which had landed on the Moon in 1967. On 24 November 1969, Apollo 12 finally made ​​it back to Earth.



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