A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface interactions," according to NASA. Credit: Patrick Moran, NASA Ames Research ...

A long-lost piece of an Apollo rocket has returned to Earth orbit after decades of racing around the sun, the first time our planet has captured an object from solar orbit, astronomers said Friday ...

Apollo 12 was Gordon's last spaceflight. Kicking up dust in the Ocean of Storms Lightning struck Apollo 12's rocket, a Saturn V, twice during the launch.

The second moon-landing mission started out with a jolt -- lightning struck the Apollo 12 Saturn V rocket twice after liftoff after a storm moved in before launch/.

On November 14, 1969, just four months after Apollo 11’s “giant leap for mankind,” the Apollo 12 Saturn V rocket took off for the moon. Seconds later, a burst of static plunged the three-man crew into ...

This combination of photos shows the Saturn V rocket with Apollo 12's spacecraft aboard on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in 1969, left. At right is NASA's new moon rocket for the ...

Sure enough, the ionized exhaust plume turned the Saturn V rocket into an enormous lighting rod. Apollo 12 was struck by lighting 36.5 seconds after liftoff and then again 15.5 seconds after that ...

The Saturn V rocket with Apollo 12's spacecraft aboard (left) on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in 1969. NASA's new moon rocket for the Artemis program with the Orion spacecraft on top ...

A supercomputer simulation of the Apollo 12 landing on the moon was created to "improve its understanding of plume-surface interactions," according to NASA. Credit: Patrick Moran, NASA Ames ...