Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice less than a minute after launch, and the mission kept going only because a flight controller recognised an obscure telemetry failure pattern and told the crew to flip a switch almost nobody else in the room understood - Space Daily
The core of this story holds up. On 14 November 1969, the Saturn V carrying Apollo 12 was struck by lightning twice in its first minute of flight, the spacecraft's telemetry dissolved into nonsense, and a flight…