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The Alarms and the Fuel Margin That Almost Ended Apollo 11's Landing

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The computer, rather than almost forcing an abort, prevented an abort. If the computer hadn't recognized this problem and taken recovery action, I doubt if Apollo 11 would have been the successful Moon landing it was.
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