John Aaron is widely (and correctly) credited with saving Apollo 12 with his "set SCE to AUX" call after the lightning strike. But my question is, how difficult was this call? Would other people have been able to make it, on the spot, and as quickly as he did?
If the spacecraft's signals are coming back jumbled, it seems to me that activating the secondary signal conditioning system would be the obvious choice for debugging. But perhaps he was the only EECOM who knew about this secondary system.
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John Aaron is widely (and correctly) credited with saving Apollo 12 with his "set SCE to AUX" call after the lightning strike. But my question is, how difficult was this call? Would other people have been able to make it, on the spot, and as quickly as he did?
If the spacecraft's signals are coming back jumbled, it seems to me that activating the secondary signal conditioning system would be the obvious choice for debugging. But perhaps he was the only EECOM who knew about this secondary system.
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