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Old 03-07-2019 | 11:04 AM
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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.

A fun little read on the topic:
Jack Garman, NASA engineer who 'saved' Apollo 11 from alarms, dies at 72 | collectSPACE
Good article! So, am I misunderstanding the "BAILOUT" to not mean "Abort"? for 1202? My reference for the abort, which on further reading in your article now seems to have been an error, was a Smithsonian article published in Air & Space magazine about the software that was priority driven and asynchronous.

Then, while watching the above videos, ran across this by the same young lady https://youtu.be/kGD0zEbiDPQ

and the best comment ...

"404 ERROR "MOON NOT FOUND"
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