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Landing
After orbiting the moon for 13 times, the Lunar Module and the Command
Module separated. Now the
Lunar Module was called “Eagle” and the Command Module was called
“Columbia.”
With
its descent rocket, the Eagle slowed down getting ready to land.
Everything went well until they were at 923 meters.
The warning lights suddenly flashed and the alarms rang, but
Mission Control soon told them that it was just their computers
overloading. It was still
safe to continue with the landing.
When
Armstrong looked out the window, he realized something was still wrong.
Their navigation system was steering them into a crater to land,
and there were jagged boulders the size of cars on the side.
Armstrong immediately took over control and skimmed the Eagle
over the crater. He was
running out of fuel, and with only sixty seconds of fuel remaining, he
set the Eagle down on a flat spot.
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