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Old 02-26-2012, 07:44 AM
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Apollo 12 was struck by lightning shortly after launch which resulted in the loss of communications and telemetry which would cause the mission to be aborted. A NASA flight controller named John Aaron recalled seeing the same problems during a test a year prior to the launch and remembered that setting the Signal Conditioning Equipment (SCE) system to Aux fixed the problem so he relayed the message "Flight, try SCE to Aux". It worked.
SCEtoAux seemed like a good nickname.

The avatar is something from a Simpsons web page. It looks kind of like me, except for the yellowish skin tone. Funny thing is, I never watched an episode of The Simpsons.
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