Apollo 12 Apollo 12 Apollo 12 was the sixth manned flight in the United States Apollo program and the second to land on the Moon. It was launched on November 14, 1969, from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, four months after Apollo 11. Commander Charles "Pete" Conrad and Lunar Module Pilot Alan L. Bean performed just over one day and seven hours of lunar surface activity while Command Module Pilot Richard F. Gordon remained in lunar orbit. The landing site for the mission was located in the southeastern portion of the Ocean of Storms. Unlike the first landing on Apollo 11, Conrad
Pete Conrad Global Patient Safety Award Pete Conrad Global Patient Safety Award The Pete Conrad Global Patient Safety Award was established by Nancy Conrad in honor of her late husband, Charles "Pete" Conrad Jr., a NASA astronaut, aeronautical engineer, naval officer, and test pilot, who flew the Apollo 12 mission and became the third man to walk on the Moon. The award named in his honor is given to extraordinary health care leaders and institutions that bring lifesaving solutions into frontline healthcare use. Some past winners of the award include Gregory H. Botz, William H. Adcox, Donald Berwick, Peter Angood, James Bagian, and J. Michael Henderson.