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“Try SCE to AUX”: three words to save a Moon mission
It’s one of engineering’s great anti-climaxes: no swelling music, no heroic speech—just three unglamorous syllables uttered on an open loop that turned chaos into “carry on.” Scene: November 14, 1969. Apollo 12 climbs into a gloomy Florida sky. Thirty-six seconds after liftoff: zap. Consoles in Mission Control fill with numeric gibberish. The crew’s caution panel…