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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 Flight Control System, Episode 11

Buzaldrin keyed andtdisky display an keybird unit verb 16 no 60, which brought up a display where he could see the delta h diminishing toward zero. That extra load on the computer caused by that entry into the keyboard pushed us into a state where there wasn't quite enough time for the computer to do everything that was asked of it. The crew soes it four seconds efore we were run about four seconds behind. I'm frantically trying to remember what the blackest tat that was the shocker for me. Cap com charley juke, when a crew said 12 o two alarm, my mind was, that's it. When i goin to land

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