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13 Minutes to the Moon: 8. ‘We’re go for powered descent’

13 Minutes Presents: The Space Shuttle

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'Eagle' - The Flight Catroller

In eagle's cabin, armstrong and aldran watch their display counting toward zero. When the engine comes on and drottles up to maximum power, the mighty thrust is like slamming on the brakes. As eagle loses speed, it will drop rapidly from 50 thousand feet towards the surface. But before the final 13 minutes of descent can start, buz aldren has to arm the descent engion and hit the precede butt. All through this time this my mind is really running as just enough data to keep going, going, going,. And that's wrong. I'm going to be second guess. But that isn't bae me, cause i know what i'm going

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