November 14

On this day – 14^th November 1969 – Apollo 12 was launched

Apollo 12 was the second manned spacecraft to land upon the moon. Its crew consisted of six members and the spacecraft was launched 4 months after the first moon landing. Apollo 12was the first to bring a colour television camera to the moon, but transmission was lost after one of the crew members ruined the camera by pointing it towards the sun. The commanders Conrad’s first words when landing was “Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but that’s a long one for me”, so that he could win a bet with a reporter. The mission lasted until November 24^th when they successfully returned to earth.