Originally Posted by
Hacker15e
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.
The psychological/human factors/CRM issue is also fascinating. Even the Apollo 13 crew felt massive regret (and some degree of legitimate temptation) to mentally indulge in thoughts of "going for it". You come 250K miles and are only 60 away (something like that) its RIGHT THERE! and you may not get another chance. And whatever pressure they felt, Apollo 11 probably had 10 times more. I bet it rivaled even a last leg of the trip commuter with a tight offline connection on the other side of the terminal!
