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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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The Landing Radar on the Spacecraft

The crew had not fully depressed the between the two spacecrafts. This meant eagle travelled much further across the lunar surface than expected. Guidance officer steve bayles still needs final confirmation that the spacecraft speed is going to stay within safe limits. Here let's take a deeper dive into y eagle's computer cries out that it's dangerously overloaded, not once, but five times during eagle's descent.

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