Apollo 12's pinpoint landing, resilient teamwork, and decades of enduring data prove how one stormy launch reshaped the ...

Fifty-five years after Apollo 12 was struck by lightning on its way to the Moon, its blend of peril, humor, and hidden art ...

Imagine a rocket struck by lightning twice within a minute after launch, but the manned mission continued – to the moon, no less. On Nov. 14, 1969, 55 years ago today, the Apollo 12 mission launched ...

On this day in 1969, Apollo 12—the second crewed mission to land on the Moon—launched from Cape Kennedy on a mission that almost ended before it truly began.

Good landing, Pete! Outstanding, man! Beautiful!” With those words, Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean congratulated Apollo 12 Commander Pete Conrad moments after one of the most precise landings in the ...