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there is a part of me that marvels that andrew j robinson made what was probably a pretty spontaneous decision when he was cast as Bit Part Lizard Person on the new star trek show that wasn’t performing as well as the other star trek show that his lizard guy was going to hit on the other character that hadn’t really gelled yet and that was going to affect the entire rest of his life i mean holy shit . like “you’re going to write an entire book based on this decision, you are going to be called to talk about it hun–nope, thousands of times”. a butterfly flaps its wings and millions of words of alien bondage fanfiction get written. my friends, it is profound .

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November 14th, 1969 sees the launch of Apollo 12 from Kennedy Space Center with Commander Pete Conrad, Command Module Pilot Richard Gordon, and Lunar Module Pilot Alan Bean.

36 seconds into liftoff, lightning strikes the launch vehicle, taking the fuel cells offline. A second lightning strike 52 seconds into launch would take out the altitude indicator. Most if not all warning lights inside the vehicle flashed, however it continued to function and fly, as the Saturn’s instrument unit, the “brains” of the vehicle, had not been affected.

Famously, John Arron who was in the trenches of Mission Control as EECOM for Apollo 12, remembered a similar altitude indicator failure that occured during a training simulation, and recommended the crew “try SCE to AUX”. The SCE, or Signal Conditioning Electronics, converts signals from instruments into voltages that can be used by the vehicles instrumentation displays. AUX, or Auxiliary, allowed the SCE to continue to function on low voltage. Alan Bean also recalled this esoteric switch from training, and switched SCE to AUX, allowing Apollo 12 to avoid an abort scenario, and earned John Arron the title of “Steely-eyed Missile Man”.

Apollo 12 would land on the moon five days later.

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