Space: Apollo 12 (Launch)

American space mission, the sixth manned flight of NASA's Apollo lunar landing program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on 14 November 1969 from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, four months after Apollo 11.

Mission commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven 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 south-eastern 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 colour 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 one of two moonwalks, they visited the Surveyor and removed some parts for return to Earth. The mission ended on 24 November with a successful splashdown.