# NASA APOLLO 12 MISSION "PINPOINT FOR SCIENCE" FILM 74662

"Pinpoint for Science" celebrates Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the moon, that was launched on November 14th, 1969. This documentary starts with a series of images from Surveyor 3 which landed on the moon on April 19th, 1967 then gives highlights of the Apollo 12 mission as follows: launch footage \[including the famous lightning strike to the Saturn V rocket\], in-flight footage, control room tracking of rocket, in-orbit shots of moon, moon approaching after LOI \[Lunar Orbit Injection\], astronauts enter lunar module, Intrepid module lands, astronauts walk on moon's surface, erection of Aslep seismology station, Intrepid rises towardsYankee Clipper orbiter, recovery of astronauts after splashdown, footage of moon rocks. it also includes the infamous moment when the TV camera was pointed at the Sun, and its fragile tube destroyed. Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the United States 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. Unlike the first landing on Apollo 11, Conrad and Bean achieved a precise landing at their expected…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Science, Space, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/74662NASAApollo12)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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