Zweite Mondlandung mit Blitzstart | Die Reise von Apollo 12

Video from the channel Mondgeflüster about Apollo 12, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 11:52. Language: German. Video type: Documentary.

A short-facts video about Apollo 12 in numbered-list form. It covers the spacecraft, the crew, the launch, the landing, the surface activities and the return.

The command and service module, CSM-108, was named Yankee Clipper, and the lunar module, LM-6, Intrepid. The crew was Pete Conrad, on his third flight; Alan Bean, on his first; and Richard Gordon, on his second. Conrad and Gordon had already flown together on Gemini 11. The backup crew, David Scott, Alfred Worden and James Irwin, would later be the prime crew of Apollo 15. The Saturn V AS-507 launched on 14 November 1969 at 16:22 UTC from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. Lightning struck it at 36 and 52 seconds into the flight, and switching the SCE, which Alan Bean remembered from a training session, kept the mission from being aborted.

Intrepid landed in the Ocean of Storms on 19 November 1969, close to Surveyor 3, from which parts were removed to bring back to Earth. The color television camera was ruined when it was pointed at the Sun. There were two moonwalks, of 3h 56m 3s and 3h 49m 15s, and the total surface stay lasted 31h 31m 11s. 34.4 kg of rocks were collected, and several exposed film rolls were left behind on the Moon. On the way back, the crew saw a solar eclipse caused by the Earth. It splashed down in the Pacific on 24 November 1969, and a loose 16mm camera injured Bean. The capsule is on display at the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton. The emblem, with a naval theme, carries a fourth star for astronaut Clifton Williams, who died in 1967.