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Apollo 16 Guidance Workaround

United States of America · Science / Astronomy. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1972

John YoungApril 1972

Space · Science / Astronomy

Continues toward the Moon after a programming change neutralizes an erroneous guidance-system gimbal-lock indication.

Names involved

John Young

Provenance

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