Space Daily May 23, 2026 • 07:50

Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice less than a minute after launch, and the mission kept going only because a flight controller recognised an obscure telemetry failure pattern and told the crew to flip a switch almost nobody else in the room understood - Space Daily

Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice less than a minute after launch, and the mission kept going only because a flight controller recognised an obscure telemetry failure pattern and told the crew to flip a switch almost nobody else in the room understood - Space Daily

The core of this story holds up. On 14 November 1969, the Saturn V carrying Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice in its first minute of flight, the spacecraft’s telemetry dissolved into nonsense, and a flight controller named John Aaron salvaged the situat…

The core of this story holds up. On 14 November 1969, the Saturn V carrying Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice in its first minute of flight, the spacecraft’s telemetry dissolved into nonsense, … [+5108 chars]
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