1969: Apollo 12 (NASA)

Apollo 12 launched on schedule, during a rainstorm. 36.5 seconds after lift-off from Kennedy Space Center, the Saturn V rocket body was hit by a bolt of lightning.

The Apollo 12 mission landed on an area of the Ocean of Storms that had been visited earlier by several unmanned missions (Luna 5, Surveyor 3, and Ranger 7). The International Astronomical Union, recognising this, christened this region Mare Cognitium (Known Sea). The landing site would thereafter be listed as Statio Cognitium on lunar maps.

The second lunar landing was an exercise in precision targeting, using a Doppler Effect radar technique developed to allow the pinpoint landings needed for future Apollo missions. Most of the descent was automatic, with manual control assumed by Conrad during the final few hundred feet of descent. Unlike Apollo 11 where Neil Armstrong took manual control of the lander and directed it further down range when he noticed that the intended landing site was strewn with boulders, Apollo 12 succeeded, on 19 November, in landing within walking distance (less than 200 meters) of the Surveyor 3 probe, which had landed on the Moon in April 1967.

To improve the quality of television pictures from the Moon, a colour camera was carried on Apollo 12 (unlike the monochrome camera that was used on Apollo 11). Unfortunately, when Bean carried the camera to the place near the lunar module where it was to be set up, he inadvertently pointed it directly into the Sun, destroying the vidicon tube. Television coverage of this mission was thus terminated almost immediately.

Conrad and Bean removed pieces of the Surveyor 3, to be taken back to Earth for analysis, and took two Moon-walks lasting just under four hours each.

Astronauts Conrad and Bean also collected rocks and set up equipment that took measurements of the Moon's seismicity, solar wind flux and magnetic field, and relayed the measurements to Earth.

Meanwhile Gordon, on board the Yankee Clipper in lunar orbit, took multispectral photographs of the surface.

The crew stayed an extra day in lunar orbit taking photographs, for a total lunar surface stay of thirty-one and a half hours and a total time in lunar orbit of eighty-nine hours.

Yankee Clipper returned to Earth on 24 November 1969.

PLEASE NOTE: This video was specially edited for the iafastro channel. There is a known inconsistency at 1:10 where another Apollo launch is depicted in error.

Music: Marcus P. Graf

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• 1969
• iaf
• space
• nasa
• apollo
• 12
• graf

[dalek14mc]

@Chosen7777-What are you talking about? The space program DOES claim truth.

"its ridiculous"

Yeah, because no hoax-head has ever made a ridiculous claim. Seriously, if you believe the moon landings were faked, then I feel sorry for you.

[swfcocs1]

@tayneli Where`s the proof of a hoax? why didn`t the USSR expose a hoax? It would have been a huge PR win for the soviets.Why haven`t the 1000s of experts in geology,physics,maths and astronomy from all over the world who have studied the apollo data,samples and footage exposed a hoax? Why did Nixon,who supposedly pulled of the biggest hoax in history(apollo) then make such a mess 5 years later of a much smaller plot(watergate) that he was forced to resign?

[007bondspy]

@Blahblobify IT A PITY THEY DIDNT TEACH YOU ANY MANNERS. YOU ARE ACTIONS HERE ARE DISGRACE TO YOUR CREED. BUT THEN THATS WHY THEY RETIRED YOU OFF EARLY...DEADWOOD.

[HaywoodZarathustra]

Very nice jazz soundtrack. Who is that?

[InfamousRavage]

/watch?v=woHgQdKsvRk&feature=r­elated

[745917203views]

@hpolastrini, or maybe because people believe Paris is all that's real because they are retards and enjoy following the fantasy life of a "celebrity".

[jerichomutant]

FAKE

[PrunVeIes]

@swfcocs1 Tell me this, if its not a hoax where are the moon people, the mooninites?

[ksjarek]

ok, your arguments seem reasonable guys:) I'm just saying, I don't know what to think about it, I'm neither denying the possibility that there were moon landings, nor do I fully believe that there were. Nothing is black or white for me, there are pleny of colours in between

:)

[thisnameistotallybad]

@ksjarek Also, the majority of the US population is disinterested with the space program. In the 60's and 70's people were very interested and involved in the space program.

[thisnameistotallybad]

@ksjarek It's expensive. We have not been preparing for more moon landings nor will there be any for the time being as any such plans were cancelled by Obama. The USA, Russia, and China are the only countries that have ever sent people to space without the use of another countries space program. And China's space program is severely underdeveloped. It is not that we do not have the ability to send people to the moon; we just do not have the aspiration to.