Showing posts with label 1969. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1969. Show all posts

Sunday, November 24, 2019

Lex Anteinternet: Apollo 12 Returns to Earth. November 24, 1969

Lex Anteinternet: Apollo 12 Returns to Earth. November 24, 1969:

Apollo 12 Returns to Earth. November 24, 1969

Apollo 12 and the USS Hornet.

On this day in 1969, the Apollo 12 crew rode their module back down to Earth.

The recovery was affected by the USS Hornet, the U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier that famously was used in World War Two.  The Hornet had been commissioned in 1943, decommissioned in 1947, and then recommissioned with a new angled flight deck 1953. At the time of her recommissioning she was a small aircraft carrier and she was decommissioned again in 1970, just the following year after this mission.  She was struck from the roles in 1989 and is now a museum ship in Alameda, California.

The Apollo 12 mission was a successful one, particularly in light of its frightening start when the Saturn rockets were struck twice by lightening during the launch.  Seismographers were left on the moon when the lunar capsule was launched back to the orbiting module and the launching apparatus' vibrations on the surface of the moon lasted for over an hour.

Thursday, November 14, 2019

Lex Anteinternet: November 14, 1969. Apollo 12 launched.

Lex Anteinternet: November 14, 1969. Apollo 12 launched.:

November 14, 1969. Apollo 12 launched.



It was, of course, a mission to the moon.

Lightening struck the Saturn rocket twice as it was lifting off, taking all three fuel cells offline.  Irrespective of that, it flew normally.