Apollo 12 landed on the Ocean of Storms in November 1969, four months after Apollo 11, and remains notable for a near-catastrophe that almost scrubbed the mission entirely: lightning struck the Saturn V twice during ascent, temporarily knocking out the spacecraft's fuel cells and sending mission controllers scrambling for a little-known SCE switch setting that saved the flight. Pete Conrad and Alan Bean recovered 74 pounds of lunar samples and retrieved components from the Surveyor 3 probe that had been sitting on the lunar surface since 1967.
Apollo 12 landed on the Ocean of Storms in November 1969, four months after Apollo 11, and remains notable for a near-catastrophe that almost scrubbed the mission entirely: lightning struck the Saturn V twice during ascent, temporarily knocking out the spacecraft's fuel cells and sending mission controllers scrambling for a little-known SCE switch setting that saved the flight. Pete Conrad and Alan Bean recovered 74 pounds of lunar samples and retrieved components from the Surveyor 3 probe that had been sitting on the lunar surface since 1967.