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.

Apollo 12 was the second crewed mission to land on the moon. The mission lifted off on Nov. 14, 1969, a little less than four months after two members of the Apollo 11 crew became the first ...

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 ...

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 was prepared to step in for Apollo 11 if it failed in its mission to take the first men to the moon. But it didn't, and Neil Armstrong's crew made history.

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 ...

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 Research ...

On November 14, 1969, the Apollo 12 mission launched to the moon. This was the second moon landing of the Apollo program. The two astronauts on board were Pete Conrad and Alan Bean.

The meals on Apollo 12 were comprised of more than 70 items. Some were rehydratable freeze-dried items, some were wet-pack and spoon-bowl foods, and others were ready to eat.