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Saturn V | Apollo 12

Saturn V | Apollo 12

Status: Success  |  Launched: Nov 14, 1969 16:22 UTC

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Mission

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

  • Type: Human Exploration
  • Orbit: Lunar Orbit (LO)

Launch Site

  • Pad: Launch Complex 39A
  • Location: Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
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Program

  • Apollo — The Apollo program was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972. (Wikipedia)

Launch data sourced automatically from the Launch Library 2 API. Last refreshed: 2026-10-08T01:01:54.797344+00:00.