The next three missions in the Apollo series were probably the three most nerve jangling. In amongst a catelogue of near disaster, lightning strikes, and equipment glitches came two highly successful landing missions and 'a successful failure'

Apollo 12 in November 1969 made the second lunar landing but not until after it's Saturn V booster was struck by lightning during it's ascent. The crew went on to make a pinpoint landing and have a lot of fun doing it. Apollo 13 - 'Houston We've had a problem...' With the explosion of an oxygen tank aboard the spacecraft the mission changed from lunar exploration to one of survival. Apollo 14 - The return of Alan Shepard, America's first man in space to put the programme back on track after Apollo 13. In doing so he became the only one of the original Mercury astronauts to make it to the Moon.