Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Lost Apollo 12?
Message-ID: <1990Sep8.231127.22737@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <ARNAUD.90Sep7090637@schizo.imposter.samsung.com> <794@ksr.com>
Date: Sat, 8 Sep 90 23:11:27 GMT

In article <794@ksr.com> clj@ksr.com (Chris Jones) writes:
>... Almost all of the CSM's power was
>knocked for a loop, and only the quick thinking of a mission controller, who
>had seen similar data in one of the simulations and realized how to reset the
>system, allowed the flight to continue without aborting...

Actually, they didn't really sort out most of the CSM's problems until
they reached orbit.  The main reason why the flight could continue was
that the CSM systems had nothing to do with controlling the Saturn V.
The Saturn's own computers, buried under the LM, were less vulnerable
to lightning hits and were unaffected.
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