The status of the launch was Success. Don’t miss this exciting rocket launch!
National Aeronautics and Space Administration was scheduled to launch a Saturn V rocket as part of the Apollo 12 mission. Apollo 12 The primary mission objectives of the second crewed lunar landing included an extensive series of lunar exploration tasks by the lunar module, or LM, crew, as well as the deployment of the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package, or ALSEP, which was to be left on the moon's surface to gather seismic, scientific and engineering data. The crew still working aboard the spacecraft with the hatch closed, and the support team in the White Room area at the 320-foot level now proceeding to start the cabin purge and leak checks. This is Apollo Saturn Launch Control; T minus 1 hour, 58 minutes, 56 seconds and counting; still Go on Apollo 12 at this time. Apollo 12 was a follow-up to the successful Moon landing in July of that year, in which Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the lunar surface. The launch window for the Human Exploration mission was on Fri, Nov 14th, 1969, 11:22 AM EST from Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL. What is accomplished during this period, of course, is once spacecraft …