Originally Posted by
Bucking Bar
The idea that he was getting warning messages and alarms which were trained as an ABORT scenario up to two weeks before the mission, flew through those on the assurance of experts on the ground
There are actually two different stories on this, but neither story has Armstrong aborting in the sim over 1201 and 1202 alarms.
Armstrong and Aldrin have independently said that they never saw the 1201 and 1202 alarms in any of the sim training.
Gene Krantz has stated (in
Failure Is Not An Option) that in at least one of the simulator runs (but not with Anderson and Aldrin in the box) a 1201 alarm came up and the sim crew aborted, it turns out unnecessarily. Following this, Krantz directed the GUIDO to come up with rules for these alarms.
A fun little read on the topic:
http://www.collectspace.com/news/new...-apollo11.html