# NASA APOLLO 12 MISSION & WINGLESS SPACECRAFT / LIFTING BODIES 87174c

This color film produced by NASA, an Aeronautics and Space Report has four segments. The first is about Apollo 12 just before its launch on November 14, 1969. It opens with a moon rock gathered by the Apollo 11 crew (:36- 1:05 ). The crew of Apollo 12, astronauts Pete Conrad, Alan Bean, and Dick Gordon, are shown walking in their spacesuits ( 1:06 ). Conrad will be the command pilot for the ten-day round trip, shown practicing weightless walking ( 1:16 - 1:28 ). Gordon, command module pilot, accompanied Pete on Gemini 11 and is shown floating in space making repairs during that mission ( 1:29 - 1:48 ). This will be the first adventure to space for Bean ( 1:50 - 2:00 ). An animation shows they will fly to the moon, Gordon will orbit above while Conrad and Bean descend to the surface to an area called the Ocean of Storms, approximately 600 miles from the site of Apollo 11 ( 2:01 - 2:16 ). Once there, they will explore, photograph, sample, and set up scientific experiments ( 2:17 - 2:23 ). G. D. Griffin is the Apollo 12 Flight Director and describes the mission ( 2:27 - 3:05 ). This includes walking 1,100 feet from the landing craft to Surveyor 3, an unmanned craft that landed on the moon April 20, 1967, and taking samples from it. A model of it has been studied extensively by the two astronauts ( 3:10 - 3:35 ). The Saturn 5 rocket will use Launch Pad 39a at the Kennedy Space Center ( 3:40 - 3:50 ). The Command Module will hold the men ( 3:51 - 4:01 ) while the Lunar Module…

- Kind: Film
- Genres: Space, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/87174cNASAApollo12AndWinglessSpacecraft)
- 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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