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

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

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