Apollo 12

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Overview

Destination: Lunar Orbit
Mission: Human Exploration

Lunar Orbit Apollo 12 landing site Oceanus Procellarum, Moon

Return flight of Apollo 12 from the Moon.

Apollo LM

Family:
Configuration:

The Apollo lunar module (LM) ascent stage contained the crew cabin with instrument panels and flight controls. It contained its own Ascent Propulsion System (APS) engine and two hypergolic propellant tanks for return to lunar orbit and rendezvous with the Apollo command and service module.

Specifications
  • Stages
    1
  • Length
    2.832 m
  • Diameter
    4.29 m
  • Fairing Diameter
  • Launch Mass
    5.0 T
  • Thrust
    16.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Apollo LM
  • Family
  • Variant
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Apollo LM Ascent Stage
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
  • Low Earth Orbit
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

LM Intrepid


In-active Human Rated Crew On-board: 2 Crew Capacity: 2
Destination: Apollo 12 CSM
Serial Number: LM-6

Flown on Apollo 12. Descent stage on lunar surface at Ocean of Storms, ascent stage deliberately crashed into Moon.

Apollo Lunar Module Details

Crew


Pete Conrad

Commander - configurations.Country.None - ( NASA )

Status: Deceased

Date of Birth: June 2, 1930
Date of Death: June 8, 1999

Alan Bean

Lunar Module Pilot - configurations.Country.None - ( NASA )

Status: Deceased

Date of Birth: March 15, 1932
Date of Death: May 26, 2018

Northrop Grumman Space Systems

Northrop Grumman Space Systems

(NGSS)

CEO: Kathy Warden Founded: 2015 Successes: 15 Failures: 0 Pending: 4

Agency Type:

Northrup Grumman Space Systems designs, builds and delivers space, defence and aviation-related systems to customers around the world. They aquired Orbital ATK in 2018 along with its launchers and ongoing missions.

INFO WIKI

Oceanus Procellarum, Moon

Apollo 12 landing site


Falcon 9
Success
15 hours, 7 minutes ago
Starlink Group 17-17
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Long March 2D
Success
1 day, 15 hours ago
SuperView Neo 2-05 & 06
Launch Complex 9 - Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center, People's Republic of China

Commercial Synthetic-aperture radar Earth observation satellites built by CAST for China Siwei Survey and Mapping Technology Co. Ltd.


Soyuz 2.1b
Success
3 days, 20 hours ago
16 x Rassvet-3
43/4 (43R) - Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation

Note: Payload identities uncertain. Batch of 16 Rassvet-3 Low Earth Orbit communication satellites for the Russian Byuro-1440 (Bureau 1440) conste…


Smart Dragon 3
Success
4 days, 22 hours ago
10 x CentiSpace-1
Haiyang offshore launch location - Haiyang Oriental Spaceport

Chinese commercial small satellites by Beijing-based company Future Navigation for providing GNSS augmentation signals services from LEO. They are pa…


Falcon 9
Success
4 days, 23 hours ago
Starlink Group 10-62
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Soyuz 2.1a
Success
5 days, 2 hours ago
Progress MS-33 (94P)
31/6 - Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan

Progress resupply mission to the International Space Station.


Falcon 9
Success
6 days, 16 hours ago
Starlink Group 17-15
Space Launch Complex 4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Electron
Success
6 days, 20 hours ago
Eight Days A Week (StriX Launch 8)
Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1B - Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand

Synthetic aperture radar satellite for Japanese Earth imaging company Synspective.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week ago
Starlink Group 10-33
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Falcon 9
Success
1 week, 3 days ago
Starlink Group 10-46
Space Launch Complex 40 - Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

A batch of 29 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.