The 363-feet tall Apollo 12 space vehicle launches from Pad A, Launch Complex 39 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:22 a.m. EST, Nov. 14, 1969. Aboard the Apollo 12 spacecraft were astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., commander; Richard F. Gordon Jr., command module pilot; and Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot. Apollo 12 was the United States’ second lunar landing mission.