Incredible images show a Russian Soyuz rocket being hit with a bolt of lightning 10 seconds into its flight. The lightning bolt hit the rocket on its nose fairing, as well as its third-stage booster segment, according to the Daily Mail, which cited the spacecraft's on-board instruments. LiveScience reports that airplanes routinely get hit by lightning and the Apollo 12 mission that carried the Saturn V rocket was also hit by a lightning bolt in November 1969. All noted effects were associated with solid-state circuits, which are the most susceptible to the effects of a discharge." All space agencies around the world also have lightning protection built into spacecraft, as well as their launch pads.

Source: Fox News May 29, 2019 18:56 UTC