(“Apollo 12” was the 6th manned flight in the United States ‘Apollo’ program and the second to land on ‘the moon’ (an ‘H type’ mission))
(it was launched on 14 november 1969, from the ‘Kennedy Space Center’, ‘Florida’, 4 months after ‘Apollo 11’)
(mission commander ‘Charles “Pete” Conrad’ and Lunar Module Pilot ‘Alan L. Bean’ performed just over 1 day and 7 hours of ‘lunar surface activity’ while Command Module Pilot ‘Richard F. Gordon’ remained in ‘lunar orbit’)
(the landing site for the mission was located in the southeastern portion of the “Ocean of Storms”)
(unlike the first landing on ‘Apollo 11’, Conrad and Bean achieved a precise landing at their expected location, the site of the Surveyor 3 unmanned probe, which had landed on 20 april 1967)
(they carried the first color television camera to the lunar surface on an ‘Apollo’ flight, but transmission was lost after ‘Bean’ accidentally destroyed the camera by pointing it at ‘the sun’)
(on 1 of 2 ‘moonwalks’, they visited the Surveyor and removed some parts for return to ‘Earth’)
(the mission ended on November 24 with a successful ‘splashdown’)