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Apollo 12

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Overview

Destination: Lunar Orbit
Mission: Human Exploration

Lunar Orbit Launch Complex 39A Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA

Apollo 12 was the second manned mission to the surface of the moon. The commander of the mission was Charles Conrad, Jr. , the Command Module Pilot was Richard Gordon, Jr. , and the Lunar Module Pilot was Alan Bean. The mission was launched on November 14th, 1969 and the Capsule safely splashed down in the ocean on November 24th, 1969

Saturn V

Family:
Configuration: V

The Saturn V was a human-rated expendable rocket used by NASA between 1967 and 1973. Most notably, the Saturn V took the Apollo program to the Moon. It still remains the world's tallest, heaviest, and most powerful rocket ever brought to operational status and is the only launch vehicle to take humans beyond LEO.

Specifications
  • Stages
    3
  • Length
    110.6 m
  • Diameter
    10.1 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    2970.0 T
  • Thrust
    35100.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Saturn V
  • Family
  • Variant
    V
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Saturn V
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
    140000.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

LM Intrepid


In-active Human Rated Unmanned Crew Capacity: 2
Destination: Lunar Surface
Serial Number: LM-6

Flown on Apollo 12. Descent stage on lunar surface at Ocean of Storms, ascent stage deliberately crashed into Moon.

Apollo Lunar Module Details

Apollo Yankee Clipper CSM-108


In-active Human Rated Crew On-board: 3 Crew Capacity: 3 Payload Capacity: 1050 kg
Destination: Lunar Orbit where the LM would detach and land on the Moon.
Serial Number: CSM-108

CSM-108 "Yankee Clipper" was an Apollo Command & Service Module used in the Apollo 12 mission.

Apollo Command/Service Module Details

Crew


Pete Conrad

Commander - configurations.Country.None - ( NASA )

Status: Deceased

Date of Birth: June 2, 1930
Date of Death: June 8, 1999

Richard F. Gordon Jr.

Command Module Pilot - configurations.Country.None - ( NASA )

Status: Deceased

Date of Birth: Oct. 5, 1929
Date of Death: Nov. 6, 2017

Alan Bean

Lunar Module Pilot - configurations.Country.None - ( NASA )

Status: Deceased

Date of Birth: March 15, 1932
Date of Death: May 26, 2018

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

(NASA)

Administrator: Bill Nelson Founded: 1958 Successes: 121 Failures: 20 Pending: 6

Agency Type:

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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