The Apollo missions are celebrated for their groundbreaking achievements, like the moon landing, but there are dark and ...

“The flight was extremely normal for the first 36 seconds, and after that it got very interesting," Conrad recalled in the ...

Apollo 12’s crew of commander Pete Conrad, lunar module pilot Alan Bean and command module pilot Richard Gordon were initially slated to be the backup crew for Apollo 8.

Often overlooked in the shadow of Apollo 11, Apollo 12 was a mission of remarkable achievements and quiet heroism. Launched ...

Apollo 12’s moon rocks are much younger than Apollo 11’s. Apollo 12 basalt 12008. This sample has a mass of 58 grams and is up to 5 centimeters across.

Apollo 12, with Pete Conrad, Richard Gordon and Alan Bean, lifts off from Kennedy Space Center on Nov. 14, 1969 amid storm clouds. Conrad radioed back to Mission Control: “Okay, we just lost the ...

The world had watched, spellbound, as Apollo 11 made mankind’s first landing on the moon in July 1969. Fewer people paid attention when NASA sent its second mission to the moon four months later ...

After Apollo 12, it would be more than a year before human beings landed again on the Moon (The aborted Apollo 13, in April 1970, was followed by a pause until Apollo 14 landed next in early 1971).

We are celebrating some big space milestones this year. The 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing was in July. Now we are marking another important milestone: 50 years since Apollo 12.

Apollo 12 astronauts will inspect Surveyor 3 as part of their mission to the moon. Certain parts of the lander will be removed and carried to Earth for scientific study. Water Landing.

Apollo 11 may have made history as the first mission to land humans on the moon, but Apollo 12, which landed on the moon 50 years ago today, apparently had the funniest crew, according to NPR.

Former Apollo 12 astronaut Richard Gordon, one of a dozen men who flew around the moon but didn't land there, has died, NASA said. He was 88.