Wheeler, Texas, prepares for Apollo 12’s 50th anniversary with event to honor Alan Bean and Mission Control
On Nov. 14, 1969, Apollo 12 was launched on top of a Saturn V Rocket and began its four-day journey to the moon. Aboard the small command module were three “Navy brothers,” Charles “Pete” Conrad; Cmdr. Richard Francis “Dick” Gordon; and command module pilot and lunar module pilot Alan L. Bean. Seconds after the launch from Pad 39A at Cape Canaveral—now Kennedy Space Center in Florida—it fell to…