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Old September 25th 12, 07:40 AM posted to sci.space.history
Obviousman
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Default automatic Moon landing?

The LM had a full "autoland" but no CDR ever used it; they all went into
the semi-auto landing mode. No-one ever used the full manual landing mode.

On 25/09/2012 11:14, Jan Philips wrote:
It is often stated that Neil took manual control of the LM to fly past
a bad landing site. But wasn't it planned that the CDR would take
over at some point?