### Launch of Apollo 12 **Date**: November 14, 1969 • **Location**: Merritt Island, United States Apollo 12 (pictured) launched from the Kennedy Space Center, later becoming the second crewed flight to land on the Moon. Apollo 12 was the sixth crewed flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, by NASA from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, landing on the part of the Moon called the Ocean of Storms on November 19, 1969. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean completed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit.

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