The L-3 manned spacecraft was designed to make a direct lunar landing using the earth orbit rendezvous method. It was a 200 metric ton spacecraft requiring three N1 launches and a single Soyuz 11A5ll launch to assemble in low earth orbit. The first N1 launch would place the 75 metric ton partially-fueled Trans Lunar Injection stage and L3 spacecraft into low earth orbit. Two further N1 launches would orbit 75 metric ton tankers which would rendezvous and dock with the first payload and top off its propellant tanks. Then the Soyuz would be launched for an automated rear-end docking with the entire L3 stack.
Space Rocket History #257 – Apollo 12 – Return, Re-entry and Splashdown
Space Rocket History #256 – Apollo 12 – Leaving the Moon
Space Rocket History #255 – Apollo 12 – Lunar Liftoff
Space Rocket History #254 – Apollo 12 – Moonwalk 2 – Part 5 – Blocky Crater & Closeout
Space Rocket History #253 – Apollo 12 – Moonwalk 2 – Part 4 – Surveyor Crater & Surveyor 3
Space Rocket History #252 – Apollo 12 – Moonwalk 2 – Part 3 – Rock ‘n’ Roll at Halo Crater
Space Rocket History #251 – Apollo 12 – Moonwalk 2 – Part 2 – Bench and Sharp Craters
Space Rocket History #250 – Apollo 12 – Moonwalk 2 – Part 1 – Head Crater – Tang Ceremony
Space Rocket History #249 – Apollo 12 – Moonwalk 1 – Part 3
Space Rocket History #248 – Apollo 12 – Moonwalk 1 – Part 2 – ALSEP
Space Rocket History #247 – Apollo 12 – Moonwalk 1 – Part 1
Space Rocket History #246 – Apollo 12 – Pin Point Landing Part 2 – Right Down the Middle of the Road
Space Rocket History #245 – Apollo 12 – Pin Point Landing Part 1 – Right Down the Middle of the Road
Space Rocket History #244 – Apollo 12 – Lunar Orbit
Space Rocket History #243 – Apollo 12 – TLI and the Coast
Space Rocket History #242 – Apollo 12 – The Launch Part 2
Space Rocket History #241 – Apollo 12 – The Launch Part 1
Space Rocket History #240 – Apollo 12 – Saturn V Instrument Unit
Space Rocket History #239 – Apollo 12 – Commander Charles Conrad – Part 2
Space Rocket History #238 – Apollo 12 – Commander Charles Conrad – Part 1
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