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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Apollo 12, Surveyor 3, Surveyor 1, Surveyor 2, Landings on other planets, Alphonsus, Ranger 7, Ranger 9, Ptolemaeus, Davy, Gassendi, Pitatus, Purbach, Fra Mauro, Arzachel, Bullialdus, Pallas, Doppelmayer, Regiomontanus, Flamsteed, Thebit, Alpetragius, Agatharchides, Letronne, Euclides, Guericke, Lassell, Lalande, Bonpland, Mosting, Herschel, Campanus, Gould, Parry, Lansberg, Flammarion, Mercator, Birt, Wolf, Hesiodus, Mare Nubium, Mare Humorum, Palisa, Lubiniezky, Turner, Opelt, Darney, Oppolzer, Loewy, Kies, Hippalus, Puiseux, Herigonius, Nicollet, Mare Cognitum, Rupes Recta, Lippershey, Wichmann, Konig, Montes Riphaeus, Manners, Kuiper, Ammonius, Norman, Winthrop, Scheele, Kundt, Tolansky, Rupes Kelvin, Dorsa Rubey, Dorsum Guettard, Dorsa Ewing. Excerpt: Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the American Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon (an H type mission). It was launched on November 14, 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 southeastern portion of the Ocean of Storms. Key objectives were achievement of a more precise landing (which had not been achieved by Apollo 11), and to visit the Surveyor 3 probe to remove parts for analysis. The mission ended on November 24 with a successful splashdown, having completed the main mission parameters successfully. Apollo 12 launches from Kennedy Space Center, November 14, 1969.Apollo 12 launched on schedule from Kennedy Space Center, during a rainstorm. It was the first rocket launch attended by an incumbent US president, Richard Nixon. Thirty-six-and-a-half...
