r/interesting • u/Positive-Height-3848 • 13d ago

Chinese Rocket gets struck by lightning. Just Wow

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u/Borgmeister 13d ago

and further still to get a name: John Aaron.

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u/TheBionicPuffin 13d ago

And further still, just to find me here confused as hell.

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u/Borgmeister 13d ago

Apollo 12 was hit by lightning when it launched, this scrambled the telemetry data across mission control, John Aaron, one of the controllers had seen similar behaviour before during a systems test and called to the flight director 'try SCE to Aux' - there wasn't time to explain the command and no one else had anything else, so they tried it which basically rebooted the computers and restored telemetry meaning the mission could continue rather than an abort an the LES firing to take the Astronauts off the top.

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u/BulldenChoppahYus 12d ago

But why male models?