John Aaron
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John W. Aaron is a former NASA engineer and was a flight controller during the Apollo program. He is widely credited with saving the Apollo 12 mission when it was struck by lightning soon after launch
John Aaron during the Gemini 5 mission.
Apollo 13
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Apollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing. The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the landing was
John Aaron
…is widely credited with saving the Apollo 12 mission when it was struck by lightning soon after launch, and also played an important role during the Apollo 13 crisis. John Aaron was born in Wellington, Texas, and grew up in rural Western Oklahoma near Vinson, one of the youngest of a family of seven children…
Odyssey's damaged service module, as seen from the Apollo Lunar Module Aquarius, hours before reentry
Left to right: Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert, Fred HaiseApollo program← Apollo 12Apollo 14 →
Swigert, Lovell and Haise the day before launch.
Mission Operations Control Room during the TV broadcast just before the Apollo 13 accident. Astronaut Fred Haise is shown on the screen.