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Apollo 12 - The NASA Mission Reports (Paperback)
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Apollo 12 - The NASA Mission Reports (Paperback)
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Loot Price R503
Discovery Miles 5 030
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CD-ROM and Book. When the crew of Apollo 11 returned to earth in
July 1969 they brought with them a wealth of new information about
the moon. Now astronauts Charles (Pete) Conrad, Alan Bean and
Richard Gordon would return to the moon and build on that
knowledge. The real test for the crew of Apollo 12 was not to see
if they could get to the moon, but to see if they could get to an
exact place on the moon. Their target was in an area known as the
Ocean of Storms. On 14 November 1969 the crew of Apollo 12 blasted
off to their place in history. Not only would Conrad and Bean
become the third and fourth men to walk on the moon but they would
land the lunar module Intrepid within 600 feet of their designated
target. Waiting for them was the unmanned space probe Surveyor 3
which had soft-landed in April 1967. The flight of Apollo 12, which
began almost catastrophically when the huge Saturn V was struck by
lightning just moments after lift off, went on to yield an enormous
amount of valuable data collected during over seven and a half
hours on the lunar surface. On their return home the crew of Apollo
12 became the first humans to witness an eclipse of the Sun by the
Earth.
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