The switch that saved a Moon mission from disaster

The switch that saved a Moon mission from disaster Nasa Just a few months after the triumph of Apollo 11, Nasa sent another mission to the lunar surface. Nasa The crew of Apollo 12 had to follow in the footsteps of the most famous space mission of all time “What the hell was that,” Conrad exclaims. In effect, the rocket became a giant conductive rod connecting the electrically charged clouds with the Earth below “We didn’t know what had happened at first,” Griffin later tells me. “Wasn't that something, babe!” Nasa The Apollo 12 crew intended to land as close as possible to a prearranged target point “We got into orbit, fixed everything up, tested everything we could,” says Griffin. “Everything looked okay and so I said, ‘Let's go to the Moon.’” Four days later, Conrad and Bean landed on the lunar surface just metres from their intended target – the Surveyor 3 probe.