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Originally Posted by Andy N1ORK
I believe they were looking for a good place to land. It looked too rocky where they were heading. And if they didn't land soon, they wouldn't have enough fuel to take off.
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Close enough.
Fuel is the issue, however the Decent engine and it's fuel supply is different from the Accent engine. Recall the leggy bottom half of the LEM was left on the moon, only the top half returned to the command module.
Charlie Duke is counting off the remaining decent engine fuel in seconds. There were 15 seconds of fuel left at shutdown. Andy made a point though, the original landing site was too rocky and they flew further to find a better spot.
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