mosley@peyote.cactus.org (Bob Mosley III) (05/07/90)
In article <1990May6.200451.7563@uokmax.uucp>, jabishop@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan A Bishop) writes: > > Lately, I've been wondering something. Why was the decision made to > launch Apollo 12 in a thunderstorm? A Saturn V is probably the world's > biggest lightning rod; we seemed to be inviting a strike. Was it the last > launch window for a month or something? ...as I recall, it was the last launch window for the DECADE. The decision to launch despite the weather came down from high up (read: The Trickster) as a way of adding insult to injury towards a certain Communist government over who beat who to the moon first. ...The next launch window was sometime in March of 1970, which I believe was the window that Apollo 13 used. OM