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3.Is that Surveyor 7?
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A good article here: "How Curiosity, Luck, and the Flip of a Switch Saved the Moon Program"
https://motherboard.vice.com/read/john-aaron-apollo-12-curiosity-luck-and-sce-to-aux
One of the things about the incident was nobody knew if the electronics/wring to the parachute deployment system had gotten fried or not. So, send them to the moon, or return to Earth? Well, if the recovery system was ruined then the crew was doomed regardless. So there was no point in coming back early, might as well go ahead and land on the moon.
[video=youtube;9oda7FnBJzY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oda7FnBJzY[/video]
One of my favorite Apollo photos:
Apollo 11 landing - July 20, 1969
Only eight years to go from virtually nothing to the precision landing on the moon shown in the photo above using a guidance computer far less powerful than any cell phone these days sent along its way using a gigantic Saturn V rocket and hardware designed almost completely without the use of computer aided design.
Absolutely amazing.
Yep, they wisely just decided to calmly (as possible) sit there instead of just aborting. A great, short video about this incident was linked to at the motherboard.com article linked to above by George:I saw the interview with Pete Conrad, Commander of the mission about that lightning strike.
I guess Gordon was command module pilot and Conrad had his hand on the abort handle.
Power went off and rebooted and he said he flinched.
He said " I'm not sure if I was ready to dump nearly a billion dollars worth of spacecraft into the Atlantic!"
I'm paraphrasing but he said ...us Navy guys fly in all types of weather....I think I'll just ride it out and see what happens..." LOL
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