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Today, we mark the #Apollo50th anniversary of Apollo 12’s remarkable pinpoint Moon landing. At 1:55am (ET) on November 19th, 1969, #Apollo12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Al Bean landed the Lunar Module, "Intrepid", in the Ocean of Storms on the lunar surface. While the preliminary landing site was projected to be 1000 feet (~0.3 km) from #NASA's 1967 Surveyor III lander, Pete Conrad and Al Bean landed just over 500 feet (~0.15 km) away. Pinpoint landing: Check. Next up: Become the third and fourth

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0... Lift-off. 50 years ago today, Apollo 12 was struck by lightning seconds after launch twice. A flight controller's quick action restored systems to normal function. The mission was successfully guided to land on the Moon's Ocean of Storms. Watch: https://go.nasa.gov/32J5MKJ | NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration

98K views · 3K reactions | #OnThisDay 1969: Apollo 12 became the second crewed mission to successfully land on the Moon. In the BBC studio, James Burke and Patrick Moore reacted to astronauts Alan Bean and Pete Conrad reaching the lunar surface. | BBC Archive | Facebook

4.5M views · 102K reactions | It returned to Earth after 30 years in space  | Primal Space | Facebook

On November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 mission launched to the moon. Discover more space history 👉 https://trib.al/44aay4N This was the second moon landing of the Apollo program. The two astronauts on board were Pete Conrad and Alan Bean. Richard Gordon stayed in the command module and orbited the moon while his crewmates went to the surface. The astronauts made a pinpoint landing in a lunar mare called the Ocean of Storms. The previous moon mission, Apollo 11, drifted far from the planned landing