How LRO Will Find Safe Landing Sites on the Moon (No Narration) (2008)
2008 · Short film · 1 min
Synopsis
The first attempt to land humans on the moon Ôø_Ôø__ Apollo 11 Ôø_Ôø__ was a triumph that almost ended in disaster. At just 400 feet from the lunar surface, with only about a minute's worth of fuel remaining, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin saw that their ship's computer was taking them directly into a crater the size of a football field, strewn with SUV-sized boulders. They quickly took control from the computer, flew over the crater and touched down in a smoother area…
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