Friday, February 3, 1989

Apollo 12 (Yankee Clipper)

  1969-099A


Yankee Clipper (Apollo CSM 108) was the Apollo 12 CSM, flown by Pete Conrad, Dick Gordon and Al Bean on the way to the second Moon landing. The crew were in quarantine from Nov 24 to Dec 11.


Yankee Clipper (CSM 108) 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1969 Nov 14  1622:00 Launch by Saturn V (SA-507)  KSC LC39A 
 1622:44 Lightning strike on SA-507 
 1623:00 CSM power restored
 1624:23 S-IC CECO 
 1624:50 S-IC OECO, sep 
 1624:52 S-II ignition 
 1625:12Interstage sep 
 1625:18LES sep 
 1629:49 S-II CECO 
 1631:20 S-II OECO 
 1631:23 S-II sep, S-IVB ignition 
 1633:42 S-IVB shutdown 
 1633:52 Earth orbit insertion  88.2 185 x 185 x 32.6  
 1700? Optics covers jettison 
 1909:31 S-IVB TLI burn 
 1914:12 S-IVB cutoff 
 1915:22 Translunar injection 
 1940:13 Sep from S-IVB/SLA 
  Transposition and docking maneuver 
 1949  Docked with LM/S-IVB 
 2035:08 CSM/LM sep from S-IVB 
1969 Nov 15  1006  Pass EL1:4 

2314:44 MCC-2 burn 
 2314:54 MCC-2 cutoff 
1969 Nov 17  1252:30 Equigravisphere 
1969 Nov 18  0347:31 SPS LOI-1 burn 
1969 Nov 18  0353:23 Lunar orbit insertion  116 x 313 x 164.7 
 0810:48 SPS LOI-2 burn  101 x 122 x 165 
 0811:05 LOI-2 cutoff 
1969 Nov 19  0000  CDR and LMP to LM 
 0416:02 LM undocked 
 0446:36 Sep burn  104 x 118 x 144.3  
 0446:51 Sep burn cutoff
  Multispectral photos of surface 
 1609:21 LOPC-1 burn  106 x 116 
1969 Nov 20   LM rendezvous with CSM
 1758:30LM docked with CSM 
  CDR and LMP return to CSM with 32 kg lunar rock, Surveyor 3 parts 
  
 2021:40 LM undocked 
 2026:39 Sep burn  107 x 115 
1969 Nov 21  1226:54 LOPC-2  105 x 120 
  Survey of Fra Mauro and Descartes 
 2049:17 SPS TEI burn 
 2051:29 Transearth injection 
1969 Nov 22  1249:15 MCC-5 burn 
 1249:20 MCC-5 burn off 
1969 Nov 24  1744:00 MCC-7 burn 
 1744:05 MCC-7 burn off 
 2029:28 SM-108 sep  38 x 531895 x 16.0  
 2044:27 Entry 
 2058:33 Splashdown 15 49 S 165 10W
 
Recovered by USS Hornet 

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