🌔 Remembering the Apollo 12 Landing 🌑 Apollo 12 landed on the Moon a little before 1:00 a.m. Houston time on Nov. 19, 1969, four months after Apollo 11. In images of the landing site taken more than four decades later by our Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, a number of artifacts are clearly visible, including: -the descent stage of the lunar module -the life-support backpacks, discarded at the foot of the lunar module ladder -the shadow of the American flag -the components of the Apollo Lunar Sur

195K views · 9.7K reactions | 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 | Facebook

6.5K views · 263 reactions | Today, NASA celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 12 mission. Commander Charles “Pete” Conrad, Command Module Pilot (CMP) Richard F. Gordon, and Lunar Module Pilot (LMP) Alan L. Bean launched on a Saturn V rocket and landed on the Moon just days later. https://go.nasa.gov/33O4DD6 | NASA's Wallops Flight Facility | Facebook