:10:00
Apollo 12, Houston.
:10:01
Try SCE to auxiliary.
Over.
:10:04
FCE to auxiliary?
What the hell is that?
:10:06
I'm not sure even Pete knew
what that was, but one person did.
:10:12
I know what that is.
:10:14
SCE to aux.
:10:19
We're getting good telemetry again.
Try to reset your fuel cells.
:10:23
- Reset fuel cells.
- Wait for staging.
:10:28
Hang on.
:10:40
Okay, Houston.
GDC is good.
:10:43
We got a good S-2, gang.
:10:45
We copy that, Pete.
You're looking good.
:10:48
Poor Gerry Griffin.
:10:50
We were his first mission
as flight director...
:10:51
and he had dealt with more malfunctions
than anybody had ever seen.
:10:57
Now we'll straighten out
our problems here.
:10:59
I don't know what happened. I'm not sure
we didn't get hit by lightning.
:11:03
That's exactly what had happened.
:11:05
Before our first stage
had finished doing its job...
:11:07
observers back on the ground
later reported...
:11:10
that not just one...
:11:12
but two bolts of lightning
rode our exhaust contrail...
:11:15
all the way back down to the pad
and hit the tower.
:11:18
That was a hell of a simulation.
:11:20
I think we need a little more
all-weather testing, guys.
:11:24
Al's got all the buses back on-line.
:11:27
We'll square up our platform
when we get into orbit.
:11:29
So I had done my part
to help out in a crisis.
:11:33
Of course, we owe a lot
to that EECOM fella, John Aaron.
:11:37
But to me,
the real hero was Pete Conrad.
:11:40
He kept his hand on the abort handle
the entire time.
:11:43
But he kept his cool
and he never used it.
:11:53
Once I got into Earth's orbit...
:11:55
I found space flight was everything
it was supposed to be.