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spectacle—the noise and colour as the 3.000-ton rocket, trailing
a 700ft flame, pulled away from Launch Complex 39 -was a
reassuring echo of the previous four Saturn V flights.
At first sight the Apollo 12 operation is a repeat of Apollo
II. with the target site in the Ocean of Storms instead of the
Sea of Tranquillity. In fact a very great deal of work has taken
place since last July in re...
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 ...s than that contained in the Apollo 11
samples, but this was because less dust (which contained as
much as 50 per cent of minute glass beads) had been brought
back.
The deliberate crashing of the Apollo 12 ascent stage, to
prevent it from hazarding future flights using the same orbit,
and to exercise the seismometer, paid a major and completely
unexpected scientific dividend in revealing th...
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 ...LIGHT International. 18 December 1969 965
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SPACEFLIGHT
Equatorial Moon—a rather bleaker prospect than
equatorial Earth. The Apollo 12 site was only 50
miles from the central latitude. Only a relatively
small change in the orbit would have sufficed to land
alongside the wreckage of the unmanned Russian
spacecraft Luna 5...
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 ...he
channelling such huge budgets in such a narrow direction
will prejudice the balanced scientific investigation of the solar
system by cheaper, unmanned probes. The adoption of a
FLIGHT PLAN FOR APOLLO 12
Final testing of Apollo 12, America's second Moon-landing
flight, and a check on the spacecraft and ground-support
equipment, began during the last week in September with a
flight-readin...
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 ...cumulate as the result of protons
from the solar wind being trapped in the rock structure.
First results
from the Moon-landings
This photograph of the Fra Mauro walled plain was taken during the
Apollo 12 flight. The rugged highland area is heavily overlaid with
ejected matter from the splendid crater Copernicus (not shown in the
picture) some 250 miles to the north. The view is looking nor...
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 ...38 FLIGHT International, 18 September 1969
WORLD NEWS
Apollo 12 Roll-out
Final preparations for the Apollo 12
lunar mission, which is due to begin on
November 14, began with the roll-out
of the Saturn V launch vehicle at Cape
Kennedy on September 8....
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 ... launch the Eurovision satellite. There is yet
no commitment on the project, but if a favourable decision
were to be announced next year, this 190kg colour-TV satellite
could be launched in 1974.
APOLLO 12 TV DOUBTS
There may be no colour TV from the Moon's surface on
Apollo 12. The Apollo 12 mission director, Capt Chester M.
Lee, said last week that problems with the colour camera had
occ...
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 ... which about lkW is needed to operate the
thruster system, the balance being used in the normal space,
craft functions.
MOON ROCK DISTRIBUTION
Distribution of 28.61b, 13kg of Moon, rocks from the Apollo 12
flight to scientists in the United States and 16 other countries
has begun from the Manned Spacecraft Centre at Houston.
The material, which represents about 40 per cent of the
samples b...
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 ...24 FLIGHT International, 27 November (969
Flight of Apollo 12
"^^HERE IT IS, THERE IT IS. Son of a
• gun, right down the middle of
the road ... I can't believe it . . .
amazing . . . fantastic ... 42° ... 42°
. . . we're at 3,500ft . . . coming do...
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 ...man. against the 2hr 32min'of Armstrong's walk last July.
Furthermore, while the Apollo I 1 men were not allowed to
venture more than 250ft from Eagle, there is no specific
restriction of range on Apollo 12. other than those imposed by
the safe duration of the portable life-support system. In any
case, assuming that Intrepid landed exactly on target, there
would be a walk of 1,120ft to Surve...
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 ..., the command and service modules for Apollo 14 (scheduled for
launch in July) undergo preliminary inspection at Cape Kennedy shortly
after delivery from their manufacturer—North American Rockwell
APOLLO 12 FINDS LUNAR MAGNETIC FIELD
The Moon does have a magnetic field, of very small intensity
compared with that of the Earth, but stronger than expected.
This is the second major discovery mad...
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 ...54 FLIGHT international, 27 November 1969
Smooth Landfall in the Ocean of Storms
THE ACCOUNT OF THE APOLLO 12 flight last week (Flight. November 20, page 819) concluded with the astronauts checking the lunar module to ensure that it was still
serviceable, following the electrical disturbance during...
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 ...ft around the Moon and back home if the SPS failed
to ignite—will be used. Mission planners now feel that this can
be dispensed with. The non-free return, or hybrid path (which
will be used on the Apollo 12 mission), will result in a some
what longer Moon coast (over 80hr), and ease the launch time,
Moon-surface lighting and re-entry constraints.
As planners point out, there are still two po...
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 ...sm, thought to
have been accidentally deposited in the Surveyor 3 camera prior
to its launch to the Moon three years ago, was recovered from
inside the camera when it was returned to Earth by the
Apollo 12 crew in November last year.
Capt Frederick J. Mitchell, a micro-biologist at the Nasa
Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Manned Spaceflight Centre,
Houston, said the micro-organism—Strepto...
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 ...ntwaters, Suffolk, May 10;
Lakenheath and Mildenhall, Suffolk.
May 17; Wethersfield, Essex, May 24;
Upper Heyford, Oxford, June 14; and
Alconbury, Hunts, July 5.
Second Moon landers The crew for Apollo 12, the second American
Moon-landing mission, was named by NASA on April 10. The three astronauts
all officers of the United States Navy, are (left to right) Charles Conrad
(Apollo 12 comman...
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 ...ntwaters, Suffolk, May 10;
Lakenheath and Mildenhall, Suffolk.
May 17; Wethersfield, Essex, May 24;
Upper Heyford, Oxford, June 14; and
Alconbury, Hunts, July 5.
Second Moon landers The crew for Apollo 12, the second American
Moon-landing mission, was named by NASA on April 10. The three astronauts
all officers of the United States Navy, are (left to right) Charles Conrad
(Apollo 12 comman...
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 ... argued by the "anti-canal" school that all Earth-based
observations of Mars are made at the limit of visibility, and
that discrete formations arranged linearly (for example, rows
This view of the Apollo 12 landing area was prepared from TV pictures
of the surface returned by Lunar Orbiters I and 3. The flight plan calls
for Apollo 12 to land 1,000ft east and 500ft north of Surveyor 3,
neces...
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 ...he rocket and launch tower were nearly lost
to view from Launch Control, three-and-a-half miles away.
At T-8sec the ignition sequence began, and at 11.22 a.m.
EST (5.22 p.m. BST). exactly on time. Apollo 12 rose from
the pad, to vanish almost immediately into cloud, the base of
which could hardly have been higher than the statutory 500ft
required to obtain a photographic record of the flight...
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 ...ack inside the spacecraft. An estimate at the time indicated
that some 601b of soil had been collected. One sample box
had to be left behind because of the weight penalty
The relative positions of Apollo 12 and Surveyor 3. The second manned
flight to the Moon, at one time apparently widely in error, actually
landed within a few hundred feet of the nominal impact point
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 ... put down to the
difference in radiation coming through the helmet.
Planners here are absolutely elated at the prospects opened
up for exploration of the Moon by the ease of this first
excursion. Apollo 12, due to land in November at Site 7 in
the Ocean of Storms, is now scheduled for a stay of between
28hr and 32hr, with two EVA periods for the LM crew
Charles Conrad and Alan Bean, each pr...
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