On November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 mission launched to the moon. This was the second moon landing of the Apollo program. The ...

In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and ...

NASA The Apollo 12 spacecraft launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this image from Nov. 14, 1969, with ...

Landing 12 people on the moon remains one of NASA's greatest achievements, if not the greatest. Astronauts on the Apollo ...

We were in a Cold War-era, including having a fierce “domination” competition going on with the Russians over the control of outer space, and undoubtedly the lack of an Apollo 12 moon landing ...

NASA has marked the 55th anniversary of Apollo 12 - world's second manned mission to the Moon. Astronauts Charles "Pete" ...

When all was said and done, Apollo 12 would result in a second manned moon landing in November 1969, just four months after Apollo 11. Commanded by Pete Conrad, Alan Bean accompanied Conrad to the ...

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface interactions," according to NASA. Credit: Patrick Moran, NASA Ames ...

Apollo 12 was still the beginnings of lunar exploration, and simply from a PR perspective, NASA would want to demonstrate a precision landing on the moon. The landing site selection made it clear ...

Charles "Pete" Conrad and Alan Bean executed a near-pinpoint landing, touching down just 600 ... which was stiffened with wire to hold it up in the moon's airless environment.

In Russia, skepticism about the Moon landings is strong; a 2020 poll found that 49% of Russians still doubt US astronauts ...

Artemis 2 will be the first NASA-led Artemis program mission with humans on board. The uncrewed Artemis 1 flew to lunar orbit ...