Apollo 12 lunar module impact: NASA crash tested moon’s seismology; myth of hollowness debunked

In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronauts deliberately crashed the lunar module’s empty ascent stage into the Moon to create a controlled seismic signal. The impact was detected by the Passive Seismic ...
Hackaday

Apollo Lunar Module Thrust Meter Lives Again

[Mike Stewart] powers up a thrust meter from an Apollo lunar module. This bit of kit passed inspection on September 25, 1969. Fortunately [Mike] was able to dig up some old documentation which ...
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)

The Apollo Missions

Early Apollo Missions: Earth Orbit Apollo missions flew unmanned until October 11, 1968, when Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and ...
Yahoo

Declassified Apollo 12 images show UFOs on the moon — Space photo of the week

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Now, more than half a century later, the crew's historic mission is capturing the public's attention again — not because of what ...

NASA left a camera on the moon for 31 months; when Apollo 12 brought it home, scientists found bacteria that appeared to be alive

After 31 months on the moon, a bacterium discovered on the Surveyor III camera is believed to be a case of contamination. A thorough re-evaluation of the lab tests from 1970 revealed procedural flaws, ...

NASA's Apollo 12 survived two lightning strikes, then astronaut Alan Bean accidentally pointed its TV camera at the Sun, ending live broadcasts from the Moon

During Apollo 12s lunar mission, an incident occurred shortly after the astronauts landed on the Moon. Alan Bean unintentionally aimed the television camera at the Sun, resulting in irreversible ...