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Article #344Re: Apollo 11 program alarms
From: James Symon
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1989 11:55
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1989 11:55
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In article <2643@kepler.sw.mcc.com>, richter@kepler.sw.mcc.com (Charlie Richter) writes:
>
> And the answer is ... Steve Bales. Bales was the
> guidance officer for Apollo 11. As such, he was the
> person who gave Eagle the GO to land despite the 1202
> and 1201 program alarms.
> --
In that CBS special it appeared that Armstrong made that decision. He
said something to the effect, "Hang tight, we're going" and just kep
going when the program alarm came up.
jim
symon@cs.unc.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!thorin!lhotse!symon From: symon@lhotse.cs.unc.edu (James Symon) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Apollo 11 program alarms Keywords: trivia Message-ID: <8861@thorin.cs.unc.edu> Date: 19 Jul 89 11:55:28 GMT References: <2604@kepler.sw.mcc.com> <2643@kepler.sw.mcc.com> Sender: news@thorin.cs.unc.edu Lines: 15