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    a 3 Pibtia.n~" & B ‘Sis ee Buzz Aldrin & the last crew unpublished archives of the - wumankind one ofthe greatest technical faa of landing a man onthe surface ofthe M and returning im safely to Earth NASA achieved ‘that most astonishing aim on 20 July 19 Those intervening years had been a white ‘uc ride Beginning with Alan Shepan's 1Sminute suboritl Mercury fightin 196, NA oa ugh a series of milestones in th onto reach the Moon. There was the capsule and the near drowning of #8 ‘lt Gus Grissom: John Glenn’ re-entry with a co il attached to his Friendship 7 capsule ely succesful Gemini miss ‘eluding one that almost span out of conto, ally threatening the if ofthe astronaut {hen fou uly fun Apolo missions to in ow Eth orb, two that bite the Moon and only ‘ne to test the full system, NASA had to endure the catastrophic los of Grissom and his ow ‘mates, Edwand White and Roger Chaffe.in 196 fie on the launch pad, but manges to the Lnar Land it was known in thats tie "A space maission will never be routine. You're potting three dummans on tep of an enormous amount o) iG exploswe” ofthe previous years rman crew of tong, ee facing ‘one of the most dram in histor I the historic fs wo the hinar face a the elation ofthe largest TV audience in istry at that ime w those grainy blackand white images from the Moon, but there so much mate tothe stryof plo I that ma be as wel known ‘Thee fit ask on top ofthe mighty et the tlle ost pom space by the Saturn wery smaoth ride. Ne uote as saying that whl the I hace watchin bs Be anaveral was deafening the cx ckground noise The secrets of Apollo 11 Nekeser ss set Sra ney wel ciits ROC cei cid rca een tic Setreieed eer tan The crew were told that should eee rT ave ee Pee ean hisen Rca rete neta) oer ent onds after detection of phic failure to activate Peete es ee tists a lotof shaking and feeling akin to being on board ‘large et aeroplane on takeoft. Yet as smeoth a ride a k was, being on top ofthat much rocket fuel was always a dangerous experience. ‘A space mission wil ever be rutin because yee puting thnee humans on top of an enormous amount of high explosive” ight erecta or ‘Apollo shun landing, told us. here were any nerves, the astronauts werent feeling it according, to hz Aldrin “We fl that our survival vas in the probability of 9) ere aloof ike Involved but there were lot of points to abort the sion shor of continuing on Something sky ‘Once in space the Camand Service Madile had to rotate and dock with che Lunar Module ‘hich was embed i the final SVB stage ofthe Soturn Voeket Atte the two spacecraft ad mated ‘onwards they flew tothe Moon, leaving the $1¥ stage walling in space behind them. Some ime Inte, the crew spotted something strange outside igh that appeared tobe folowing them, When ‘Michael Collis used the onboard tescope to view ithe cult make out it ok ike a series of clipes, nd when focusing the telescope it seemed [eshaped, but that cout have just been the way sunlight was gintng offi Retice to tell mission control Houston, Te that they were beng raced tothe Moon by a UFO the crew cautiously asked where the SIVB rocket stage was "A few moments ltr they came back ‘There was a Aegree of ; Woollen seem In teeing control that / to us and said t was around 6.000 males (9556 kelometres] away’ recalled Ari. “We really dt think we wer ooking at something that faraway 0 we decided to goto sleep and not alk abou anymore” Aldrin doesn bieve i was an alien Spaceship but that twas mote Wkly the Sun reflecting of one of four metal panes that fll away from the rocket tage when they docked with the mar Module For almost fur days Apolo few tovrards the Moon, where Armstrong an Aldcin climbed into the Lunar Module - the Eagle - and sald goodye to Calin wo was to remain in the ‘Command Module noi round the Moon ‘As the Eagle flew around the ar sie ofthe "Moon things in mision contol were growing, tence. “There was degree of ero contol that hada even sen in taining” said Krana, “That was when you realised this was the real del today, we land onthe Moon” Almest Immediately after separating fom the Command “Modi there were problems. Rado communication with the Eagle was Sketchy at best, and they were coming up tothe point wisere the landing could no longer be aborted if something was wrong, Te was upto me to decide if we had enough information to make the gjno-g ecisien) and continue the descent to the Moon’ said Kranz So fve minutes before the powered descent to the hina surface was due to begin with radio communication cating n ane out, Kranz asked seriousness tn omission att: ca ein Dey pects V rocket caries three poet face) fad Cet pea ot nm ease puiy 8.1908 ore in pee oo wert oe Monn 19 8 sy that the men in peace ae me iy sacrifice iain ate ss ox toate Moon 1 tag, x A he ee reste ne Ne AN ad 2 a os + nal 2 three ngaown ner wesiamanki vet nites aying 6 : ve they wade mca OY eae BY? epee xd they willbe vy toi stat ey ee trae toon a : one-sn thei water Eat tat ae a Reet ssid the ratio. ney sue vty rer ent SF ps oy bind 08° St inthe con assur vos ne ne a a 1. our heroes are ee an aint YS: Te do ch tne SITE Thane 5 snd a a nar ta aL ana they wil oe inst, an cope atom wil a sto com ‘put hese eau eevee net satis forever Ar me another word cee naman ne what tere te widows to08 o each f thew sent shoud telephone spe peste sh his fight controls to give him their gino-go based on the ast fame of data that they saw They ll said "go" An then things turned from bad to neany catastrophic The spacecras guidance computer, developed at MIT under the auspices of Charles Draper the lab at [MIT now bears his name- was a MH system that was the fist the world to use integrated circuits ts fixed memory was an ingen designed ‘Cre Rope which consid of ase of smal hoops. ‘Litle Olé Ladies, as t was referred to. the tine along with machines would thread the code either through or around the hoops to sve the computer its 1o¢ 0 value Ifthe MIT code ‘was threaded incor, the programmer’ would have to laboriously go through the woven cores ad detaugt When the crew were approaching the Moor forthe nding, various alarms were triggered by the computer.“Whatever information we were Tooking a [disappeared] and instead it gave us the de number of the alarm” sak Alri, was ogo on Meee eetennetea iy (ert rer hee neon Pun iets “Apolo Apolo hiss Houston. Oo you rea? Over” “apa pot ts Houston. D0 you red? Ove: “Apolo Apolo, sis Houston, Weare reading you wealiy. Go ahead. Over" “Anolis is Mouston. Are youn the proces of acquiring ‘toon the bur? Over “Aoi Apo tisis Houston. How do you rea iiackooerocnew Nee en) Apollo 11's journey to the Moon It was one small step for aman, one giant Seo mucileluey cary ‘Command and Service Mode poner ports reotpeeecs peneelr eerneenn Cle " a ee \ rere aa ea Nigton D rca >a cr pol ieee CT ee eg pis tgnition of a eer ees en a Litt en eee eet ad ce ten \f C-iey AD ected eer Conn) f on Seer rs 7 ae a \ Pye et reer cara aa a crs 1 stage sored i 4 ere 4 i H a Cro ae i , yc JK. Stage iiesot i AN by ect rf 7A. aera Stage VB engine ignition ‘ cin coer] eee panei ame o ie eo Peet cere Cee Service Module errr ee preter Ext and sleep periods ‘ Pets nd istracting and we dk ‘The 1201 and 1203 ard in effect th anual bing the Lana ‘Mode dow. 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