1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:01,760 Apollo 12 2 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:03,420 Pete Conrad, Commander 3 00:00:03,420 --> 00:00:04,800 Richard Gordon, Command Module Pilot 4 00:00:04,800 --> 00:00:05,940 Alan Bean, Lunar Module Pilot 5 00:00:05,940 --> 00:00:07,940 Ignition sequence start in 6 00:00:07,940 --> 00:00:08,680 Six 7 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:09,360 Five 8 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:10,400 Four 9 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:11,240 Three 10 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:12,140 Two 11 00:00:12,140 --> 00:00:13,040 One 12 00:00:13,040 --> 00:00:13,980 Zero 13 00:00:13,980 --> 00:00:14,960 All engines running 14 00:00:14,960 --> 00:00:16,960 Commit lift-off 15 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:21,280 Pete Conrad reports the yaw program is in. 16 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:25,480 Tower clear 17 00:00:26,240 --> 00:00:30,440 Apollo 12 was struck by lightning seconds after launch twice. 18 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:31,360 I don't know what happened here. 19 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:33,560 We had everything in the world drop out. 20 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:37,240 I got three fuel cell lights, an AC bus light, a fuel cell disconnect 21 00:00:37,240 --> 00:00:41,000 AC bus overload 1 and 2, main bus A and B out 22 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:46,800 Luckily, Flight controller John Aaron had seen the same unusual readings in a flight simulation. 23 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:48,960 The fix was resetting an obscure system called Signal Conditioning Equipment (SCE). 24 00:00:48,960 --> 00:00:52,680 Apollo 12, Houston, try SCE to Auxiliary, over 25 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:55,000 NCE to Auxiliary? 26 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,120 What the hell's that? 27 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,520 S-C-E, S-C-E to Auxiliary 28 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:03,360 Apollo 12, Houston, try to reset your fuel cells now 29 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:10,520 Okay. I have a good GDC, and Al has got the fuel cells back on, and we'll be working on our AC buses. 30 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:18,800 Automatic guidance brought Apollo 12 to their target on the Ocean of Storms. 31 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:21,240 Conrad and Bean made a precision landing just 535 feet from the Surveyor 3 spacecraft. 32 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:24,320 There it is! Son of a gun- straight down the middle of the road! I can't believe it! 33 00:01:24,320 --> 00:01:26,680 Amazing! Fantastic! 34 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:31,160 Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that's a long one for me 35 00:01:35,900 --> 00:01:38,860 Pete Conrad & Alan Bean did two moonwalks in two days 36 00:01:38,860 --> 00:01:41,180 They collected lunar samples ... 37 00:01:41,180 --> 00:01:45,260 retrieved parts of Surveyor 3 to study the long-term effects of exposure ... 38 00:01:45,260 --> 00:01:51,680 and deployed the first Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) to study ... 39 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:53,920 moonquakes 40 00:01:53,920 --> 00:01:56,380 ions 41 00:01:56,380 --> 00:01:58,560 magnetic fields 42 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:00,260 solar wind 43 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:02,320 and lunar dust 44 00:02:07,420 --> 00:02:11,420 The ascent module was jettisoned to impact the moon. 45 00:02:11,420 --> 00:02:16,480 countdown LM impact in 3 2 1 ... mark 46 00:02:16,480 --> 00:02:20,080 NASA observed seismic activity on the Moon for the first time. 47 00:02:20,080 --> 00:02:23,880 To the surprise of seismologists, some signals lasted an hour. 48 00:02:24,020 --> 00:02:26,900 Hello Houston, Apollo 12 en route home 49 00:02:28,360 --> 00:02:31,480 We're getting a spectacular view of the eclipse. 50 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:37,940 Splashdown November 24, 1969