Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice in the first 52 seconds of flight, filling the spacecraft with warning lights and turning Mission Control’s data into nonsense — until a young controller nam...

spacedaily.com/t-apollo-12-was-struck-b...ols-data-into-nonsense-until-a-young-cApollo 12 was hit by lightning at 36 and 52 seconds after launch, knocking fuel cells offline and scrambling its telemetry. EECOM controller John Aaron recognised the failure pattern from a test a year earlier and called 'SCE to Aux'; Alan Bean flipped the obscure switch and the mission was saved.

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