posted 01-03-2017 11:50 AM
When Apollo 12 finally arrived safely in Earth orbit having been struck twice by lightning during the launch, Houston was rather concerned that the pyros (used for parachute deployment) may have been activated as a result of the lightning and the only way of checking was via visual inspection by the crew.
Were Pete Conrad and Alan Bean asked to visually inspect the command module whilst in the lunar module when undocking from the CM?
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posted 01-03-2017 12:04 PM
During the post-liftoff LM rendezvous, Conrad mentioned that the CM umbilical may have been struck by lightning because it looked brown and burned. They did not have a 70mm camera in the LM to take photos.
SkyMan1958 Member
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posted 01-03-2017 07:22 PM
The CM/LM umbilical is in my collection, and it does not look affected in the least to me...
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Posts: 3324 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: Oct 2010
posted 01-03-2017 09:20 PM
I think he was referring to the CM/SM umbilical, not the umbilical cord.