Apollo 12: Pinpoint for Science

This video, using historical film footage, photography, and computer animation, describes the launch, flight, lunar landing and exploration, and return flight of Apollo 12, one of the manned lunar missions. The astronauts were Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon, and Allen Bean. Thirty-six seconds into the November 14, 1969 launch, the spacecraft was hit by lightning from the thunderstorm surrounding the launch site. In spite of this mishap, the vehicle and astronauts were not harmed and continued with their mission. The Yankee Clipper (command module) docked with the Intrepid (lunar module) and upon reaching the Moon, the Intrepid disconnected during lunar orbit and descended to the Moon's surface to a landing area previously marked by the Surveyor satellite. After lunar surface exploration, soil sample collection, satellite maintenance, and setting up various lunar surface monitoring equipment (a seismometer and two atmospheric monitors), the Intrepid launched back into lunar orbit, docked with the Yankee Clipper, and returned to Earth. There are both B/W and color photography and film footage, which includes the earth launch, lunar orbit, descent and ascent of Intrepid on the Moon, return flight, atmospheric reentry, and recovery on the Earth, and ground to air and space communication is shown.

[@Zoomer30]

Ironic that their target was the Ocean of Storms and got struck by lightning.

[@ublade82]

Cosmic radiation striking the eye was observed on all Apollo flights. It's not mentioned in this video because the video is 28 minutes long, and Apollo missions lasted over a week, so a lot of stuff gets left out. There were planned experiments to investigate the phenomenon, and on Apollo 16 and 17 they even had a special helmet.

[@frogstamper]

One of humanities greatest achievements.....

[@twistedyogert]

"We are going someplace, I see it getting bigger and bigger all the time." For some reason I laughed at that comment.

[@Zoomer30]

I think that you can see the Surveyor jist before they start to hiver, just off to the left in the crater you see a bright reflective object before it goes behind the LEM.

[@NextScamdemic]

8:24 what crater is Conrad so excited about? Is it the Surveyor crater he's located?

[@tperk]

At 4:00 a description almost word-for-word of what would become necessary for Apollo 13 a few months later: using the LM engine to get back on a free-return trajectory.

[@lizardbyte]

It’s a good thing we leveled off at high I couldn’t see anything underneath me once we got into that dust!

[@JohnBrown-cz5vo]

Everything worked 1967. We can solve any problem in 2019 if we want.

[@Nestorb24]

Excelente vídeo, gracias NASA por compartir todos los descubrimientos al mundo.

[@oscarin13]

Rest in peace, Capt. Richard ''Dick'' Gordon.

[@AllAmericanGuyExpert]

My right ear feels neglected

[@antonionovais5257]

Estas imagens são fantásticas.......mas serão reais.?.....isto é mais surreal que real.....pelo menos a mim assim me parece......

[@dks13827]

Who is at 3.19 ???

[@dks13827]

Al Worden.

[@edwopGH]

Space Cowboys

[@Moredread25]

Apollo 12: not as well remembered as it should be because they killed their TV camera.

[@ericephemetherson3964]

At 20:40 you don't see any lunar boot impressions in the soil leading from LM to the Surveyor. This is done in a studio. No man ever walked on the Moon.

[@astroevada]

Because...the image is so fucking bright? Jesus christ you really out here basing your entire impression of a program on one image.

[@Ruda-n4h]

You can't see it because the photograph is not that clear.

[@ericephemetherson3964]

@@Ruda-n4h I am enclosing a link of an interview of the three jokers that landed in the studio thinking it was the Moon. The interview was done 20 years after the supposed landing on the Moon. Watch for very interesting points in the video as you will notice that percentage-wise the talk about the Moon and what happened on the Moon is very scarce. The three jokers talk more about the Earth and simulations done in cockpits rather than the real thing that should have happened on the Moon. At 6:09 there is the relevant question of impressions of the 2 jokesters when they stepped on the lunar surface. See how Neil Armstrong avoids the question completely. He never states how it was to step on the Moon for the first time in human history. He begins as if he already knew how it is with impressions to be on the Moon which started before they landed. How preposterous that sounds; Neil knew what it's like to step on the Moon before they landed because they did that in a studio many times. The interview really does not say much about the Moon and their experiences on it. All this is just rolled over lies that you can hear at the press conference from August 12, 1969. No human ever stepped on the Moon. And will not step with Artemis. Technological barriers have not been overcome to fly there and back. Notice that adding comments in the link has been shut out: kzbin.info/www/bejne/q5C2mmuCqN6llZI

[@ericephemetherson3964]

@@Ruda-n4h kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqGzfqJ_q5afrqs

[@c.chouinard3282]

@@ericephemetherson3964 keep on smoking your bad stuff....you are in the good way 🤣🤣🤣

[@PUPPYBONZ]

wow, the dust sure settled fast.Must be all the gravity.

[@YDDES]

Puppy Bonz No, it's the lack of atmospere to hold the dust up. In vacuum, big boulders and small dust particles, fall at exactly the same rate.

[@reymondjames1726]

You are another truly ignorant fuck. Somebody tells a half wit moon landings faked, and here comes you.

[@davemack5200]

Hoax Alert! Disney in space!

[@reymondjames1726]

Hoax alert? You are an idiot! You are the reason turds like the Clintons, Bush's and Obama got into office.

[@topcthepainclan2004]

@@reymondjames1726 politics ew. Fuck right off with that non sense, flat earth shit stain

[@imenhoteb]

do people belive this crappy piturers....?

[@nickrulercreator]

Tony Nelson sorry that the camera quality of the 60's isn't good enough. Remember. It's the 60's

[@antonionovais5257]

Minuto 7.11.....Isto é tão surreal........

[@brucetharpe762]

Do people believe this crappy person?

[@PDZ1122]

You have to understand that people weren't as stupid as your generation. The was no need to come up with idiotic hoax theories because people weren't dumb enough then to believe them. It takes a special kind of Internet-induced stupid to come up with shit like yours.