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John W. Aaron (born 1943) 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, and also played an important role during the Apollo 13 crisis.
Enter John Aaron, Chief EECOM Officer and flight controller, a beacon of hope amidst the storm of confusion. Aaron, with his sharp acumen, discerned a familiar pattern amidst the jumbled telemetry readings — a pattern he had observed once in a training simulation.
Nov 19, 2014 · Miles below, John Aaron, a 24-year-old NASA engineer who hailed from Oklahoma, stared into his monitor and its garbled data.
Jan 26, 2000 · John W. Aaron Interviewed by Kevin M. Rusnak Houston, TX – 26 January 2000. Rusnak: Today is January 26, 2000. This interview with John Aaron is being conducted at the Johnson Space Center for the JSC Oral History Project. The interviewer is Kevin Rusnak, assisted by Carol Butler and Rob Coyle.
John W. Aaron (born 1943) 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, and he played an important role during the Apollo 13 crisis, earning him the complimentary appellation of "a steely-eyed missile man".
Feb 17, 2016 · The story of the Apollo 12 launch and the actions of Flight Controller John Aaron illustrate this idea. About 36 seconds into the flight of the second human mission to the surface of the Moon...
Among his many contributions, Aaron devised the recovery for the power systems on Apollo 12 after the spacecraft was struck by lightning during launch, thus avoiding a mission abort. His quick thinking and extreme calm under pressure earned him the nickname “steely-eyed missile man.”
