Apollo 12 command module Yankee Clipper

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Apollo 12 command module Yankee Clipper was the crewed spacecraft that carried the Apollo 12 astronauts to and from lunar orbit during NASA’s second Moon-landing mission in 1969.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Apollo command and service module
crewed spacecraft
space capsule
associatedWithEvent second crewed Moon-landing mission in history
callSign Yankee Clipper NERFINISHED
carriedCrew Alan L. Bean NERFINISHED
Charles Conrad Jr. NERFINISHED
Richard F. Gordon Jr. NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
crewPosition Command Module Pilot seat for Richard F. Gordon Jr.
Commander seat for Charles Conrad Jr.
Lunar Module Pilot seat for Alan L. Bean
crewSize 3
dockingCapability docking with Apollo Lunar Module Intrepid
followedBy Apollo 13 command module Odyssey NERFINISHED
function transport crew to and from lunar orbit
hasComponent crew cabin
guidance and navigation system
parachute recovery system
reaction control system
heatShield ablative heat shield
launchDate 1969-11-14
launchSite Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
launchVehicle Saturn V NERFINISHED
manufacturer North American Rockwell NERFINISHED
mission Apollo 12 NERFINISHED
missionNumber Apollo 12 NERFINISHED
missionOutcome successful
missionRole command module
missionType crewed lunar landing support mission
operator NASA
orbited Earth NERFINISHED
Moon NERFINISHED
partOf Apollo 12 NERFINISHED
precededBy Apollo 11 command module Columbia NERFINISHED
program Apollo program NERFINISHED
recoveredBy USS Hornet (CVS-12) NERFINISHED
reentryCapability high-speed lunar-return reentry
reentryDate 1969-11-24
returnedToEarth Pacific Ocean splashdown
spacecraftType Block II Apollo command module NERFINISHED
splashdownLocation Pacific Ocean NERFINISHED
usedFor Earth atmospheric reentry
crew habitation during translunar and transearth coast
trans-Earth injection return phase
yearOfOperation 1969

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USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum associatedWithEvent Apollo 12 command module Yankee Clipper
this entity surface form: Apollo 12 splashdown recovery (via USS Hornet CV-12)
Apollo 13 Command and Service Module Odyssey precededBy Apollo 12 command module Yankee Clipper
this entity surface form: Apollo 12 Command and Service Module Yankee Clipper
Dick Gordon spacecraftFlown Apollo 12 command module Yankee Clipper