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On Today's Date: Apollo 12 Struck By Lightning – Twice
On Nov. 14, 1969, 55 years ago today, the Apollo 12 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center on its second manned mission to the moon. After scattered showers and thunderstorms popped up the ...
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The Otherwise Unremarkable ‘Rock Boxes’ That Brought Pieces of the Moon Back to Earth
Its official name is the Apollo Lunar Sample Return Container No. 1008, but everyone, including Teasel Muir-Harmony, curator ...
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How did walking on the Moon affect the Apollo astronauts?
Apollo 12, commanded by Pete Conrad with Alan Bean as lunar module pilot, touched down in the Ocean of Storms in November of 1969. Conrad, a notorious prankster, retained his light-hearted ...