Apollo 12 Survived Two Lightning Strikes, Original Audio Over CGI Video Shows the Turmoil. Published: 17 Jan 2022, 13:35 UTC • By: Daniel Patrascu. 7 photos. Photo: Hazegrayart.

The second lightning strike stayed in the cloud and had no ground contact, but it shut down the rocket's navigation system, said Krider. A diagram of Apollo 12's command module main control panel.

On Nov. 14, 2969, NASA's Apollo 12 mission launched for the moon — and got struck twice by lightning just seconds after the rocket lifted off.

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