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[i]"Below the 200-foot level, you are in the dead man’s curve," says Cernan. "Past that point, if the descent engine quit burning for any reason, you would fall to the surface and crash before you could manually abort."[/i]
[i]At an altitude of 15 metres they entered what was referred to as the deadman zone. In this zone, if anything had gone wrong if for example, the engine had failed it would probably have been too late to do anything about it before they crashed on the moon. There were no fail-safe abort systems available until after the landing.[/i]
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