On Nov. 14, 1969, Apollo 12 blasted off on the second planned moon landing mission. Following the smashing success of the first manned moon landing roughly four months earlier, Apollo 12 was to ...

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A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface ...

On November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 mission launched to the moon. This was the second moon landing of the Apollo program. The two astronauts on board were Pete Conrad and Alan Bean. Richard Gordon ...

Apollo 12 did more than enough to escape its famous predecessor's shadow. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's second human ...

Timothy Swindle receives funding from NASA. When Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, it was a giant leap for mankind and a huge success for American engineering, but there was one aspect of the mission that ...

On November 19th, the Apollo 12 astronauts, Pete Conrad and Alan Bean, became, respectively, the third and the fourth men to ever walk on the Moon’s surface. Their incredible achievement came just ...

Pete Conrad can be heard singing to himself while bouncing around on the moon. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Apollo 11 may have ...

On this day 50 years ago at 2:13 p.m. EST, Commander James (Jim) Lovell, Command Module Pilot John Swigert and Lunar Module Pilot Fred Haise launched from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center ...

Imagine a rocket struck by lightning twice within a minute after launch, but the manned mission continued – to the moon, no less. On Nov. 14, 1969, 55 years ago today, the Apollo 12 mission launched ...