{"id":3482,"date":"2019-11-20T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T09:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/?p=3482"},"modified":"2019-11-21T08:16:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T08:16:17","slug":"apollo-12-19691121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/apollo-12-19691121\/","title":{"rendered":"Apollo 12 &#8211; 50th Anniversary. The Journey home."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>21st of November 1969.<br \/>\n50 years ago today, in orbit around The Moon, the three Apollo 12 astronauts performed a great deal of landmark tracking and photography from within the Command module Yankee Clipper.<\/p>\n<p>Below is my 3D image created from one of their amazing pictures of the lunar surface.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3483 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo12-3D-cratersWeb.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo12-3D-cratersWeb.png 1500w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo12-3D-cratersWeb-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo12-3D-cratersWeb-600x592.png 600w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo12-3D-cratersWeb-300x296.png 300w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo12-3D-cratersWeb-1024x1010.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo12-3D-cratersWeb-768x758.png 768w, https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-content\/uploads\/Apollo12-3D-cratersWeb-210x207.png 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/>\n<p>At 20:49 UT tonight, they performed their transearth injection ignition, by firing the single SPS engine.<\/p>\n<p>This would take them out of lunar orbit, sending them back towards Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 40 minutes later, they began a TV transmission as they started their 3 day coast back home.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21st of November 1969. 50 years ago today, in orbit around The Moon, the three Apollo 12 astronauts performed a great deal of landmark tracking and photography from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Apollo 12 - 50th Anniversary. The Journey home. - Star-Gazing","description":"21st of November 1969. 50 years ago today, in orbit around The Moon, the three Apollo 12 astronauts performed a great deal of landmark tracking and photography"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3482"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3489,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3482\/revisions\/3489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.star-gazing.co.uk\/WebPage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}