WIKIARCHIVES.SPACE

Apollo 12 astronauts, l-r, Charles Conrad, Jr., commander; Richard F. Gordon, command module pilot; and Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot, pause in front of their 363-foot-high Saturn V space vehicle during the dry portion of the Countdown Demonstration Test, October 29, 1969. The three astronauts will be launched from the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A no earlier than November 14, 1969, on the Nation's second manned lunar landing mission.