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[i]110:30:58 Bean: You got 11 percent. Got loads of gas. 300 feet (altitude), coming down at 5 (feet per second). 110:31:05 Conrad: Gosh, I went by it. [Fjeld - "We all know what happened on Apollo 11. Slosh uncovered the Quantity Gauge, latching the (Quantity) light early, losing the crew half a minute of flight time. It also made the LPD unreliable. Apollo 12 flew with the same configuration and its Quantity light came on early, exactly the same way! Worse, Pete actually used the LPD to redesignate his landing, but he maneuvered away from his target because the slosh was messing up his view through the grid. He popped out of P64 and tried to slam on the brakes but it was too late ("Gosh! I went by it!"), so he had to make his heroic flight around the crater, scaring Al a bit. He would have been better off never using the LPD, letting the flight path settle out, switching to manual just before the crater, and landing uprange and north of the crater!"][/i]
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