{"id":24271,"date":"2023-04-25T22:32:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T20:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/?post_type=purple_issue&p=24271"},"modified":"2023-04-25T22:32:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T20:32:45","slug":"what-happened-on-apollo-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistoryrevealed\/2023\/04\/25\/what-happened-on-apollo-12\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened on Apollo 12?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Q&A<\/span><\/h4>\n\n

What happened on Apollo 12?<\/h2>\n\n
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THE MOON MEN <\/strong>Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon and Alan Bean (left to right<\/em>) shortly before embarking on Nasa\u2019s second crewed lunar mission <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n
\u2022 <\/span>SHORT ANSWER<\/span><\/h5>\n\n

Although sandwiched between two more famous missions, the second Moon landing had its shocks <\/p>\n\n

\u2022 <\/span>LONG ANSWER<\/span> <\/h5>\n\n

The events of Apollo 11 (the Moon landing, \u201cone small step\u2026\u201d and all that) and Apollo 13 (the near-disaster turned into a remarkable rescue) are undoubtedly major chapters in the history of space travel, but what about the one in between?<\/span><\/p>\n\n

For the Apollo 12 astronauts, the pressure was off following the previous mission\u2019s success. And it showed, given Pete Conrad\u2019s first words on the Moon: \u201cWhoopee! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that\u2019s a long one for me!\u201d <\/p>\n\n

Things weren\u2019t all that fun at the beginning. Within a minute of take-off on 14 November 1969, lightning struck the craft… twice. Yet despite some electrical systems failing, this shocking start did nothing to hinder the voyage. <\/p>\n\n

Conrad and Alan Bean spent over 31 gleeful, joke-filled hours on the Moon and made two moonwalks. The first saw them set up geological and environmental experiments, which sent data to Nasa for years, while the second explored the site of Surveyor 3, a robotic probe that landed in 1967. Dick Gordon, on the command module, took photos that proved invaluable for picking future landing sites. Unfortunately, there isn\u2019t as much footage from Apollo 12 as there should be, since Bean broke the colour camera they took with them by accidentally pointing it at the Sun. <\/p>\n\n

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