Space Exploration Apollo 12 Earth Orbit Chart for the Second Crewed Lunar Landing Mission 1969

Apollo 12 Space Exploration

Ephemera and pamphlets

Apollo 12 Earth Orbit Chart, 1969, documents the mission planning for the opening phase of NASA’s second crewed lunar landing mission, from launch through Earth parking orbit and translunar injection. Prepared for the November 1969 launch dates, the chart records the planned orbital path followed before the spacecraft departed Earth for the Moon carrying Charles Conrad, Richard Gordon, and Alan Bean.

Apollo 12 Earth Orbit Chart (AEO). November 1969. Color chart measuring approximately 41 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches. The long-format sheet maps the spacecraft’s orbital path across the Earth and includes geographic locations, trajectory markings, and injection notation associated with the planned transition from Earth orbit to the translunar trajectory. Apollo 12 launched on November 14, 1969, entered Earth parking orbit, and remained in orbit until the S-IVB stage fired for translunar injection approximately two hours and forty-seven minutes after launch.

Apollo 12 followed Apollo 11 by four months and was the second mission to land astronauts on the lunar surface. Before the lunar voyage could begin, mission planners had to account precisely for Earth orbit, timing, and the translunar injection burn that placed the spacecraft on its path to the Moon. The chart preserves that operational planning in a large-format visual record of the mission’s initial flight sequence. Overall very good condition.

Item #14394

Price: $250.00