"This display does not place a particularly heavy load on the computer, but when added to the existing load, was sufficient to generate the 1202 alarm."
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"102:38:26 Armstrong: (With the slightest touch of urgency) Program Alarm.
"102:36:18 Armstrong: (To Houston) Our position checks down range show us to be a little long.
102:36:21 Duke: Roger. Copy. (Heavy Static)
[In a post-mission analysis, Apollo Descent and Ascent Trajectories, Floyd Bennett notes that, at PDI, Eagle was about 3 miles farther downrange than planned, due to [..]"
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... after that, Armstrong selected a landing site visually, and landed the lunar module manually. :)
[Mission Control] Thirty seconds.
(Just Mission Control telling Neil Armstrong how many seconds of fuel he has left for landing) :)
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I love reading this: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.landing.html
"This display does not place a particularly heavy load on the computer, but when added to the existing load, was sufficient to generate the 1202 alarm."
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"102:38:26 Armstrong: (With the slightest touch of urgency) Program Alarm.
102:38:28 Duke: It's looking good to us. Over.
102:38:30 Armstrong: (To Houston) It's a 1202.
102:38:32 Aldrin: 1202. (Pause)"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/25/1124164/-Neil-Armst...
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"102:36:18 Armstrong: (To Houston) Our position checks down range show us to be a little long.
102:36:21 Duke: Roger. Copy. (Heavy Static)
[In a post-mission analysis, Apollo Descent and Ascent Trajectories, Floyd Bennett notes that, at PDI, Eagle was about 3 miles farther downrange than planned, due to [..]"
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... after that, Armstrong selected a landing site visually, and landed the lunar module manually. :)
[Mission Control] Thirty seconds. (Just Mission Control telling Neil Armstrong how many seconds of fuel he has left for landing) :)
If you like this, there's Spacelog, which is a neat way to view transcripts for a number of missions:
http://apollo11.spacelog.org/
http://apollo13.spacelog.org/
Browsing through the Apollo 13 "spacelog", it's interesting how a lot of the lines in the Apollo 13 movie are very similar to the ones in real life.