Did Man walk on the Moon ?
Was this the greatest technological achievement of mankind or the greatest orchestrated hoax of all time ?

The Saturn V was the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. It was packed with a million gallons of highly explosive fuel and just before launch it sprang a leak (a leaking valve which plagued saturn v throughout its development). One stray spark could destroy the rocket and its crew. It was fixed just before launch.

There were alot of times when the decision to abort the mission was made

Mission control computers did most the work. There computers filled a whole floor of the building

s4B - final stage of rocket jettisoned 2 days earlier

What was the mysterious object that shadowed Apollo 11 as it headed towards the moon? It certainly was a ufo - in that it was unidentifed and flying. All the crew saw it (but several crews in the past had also seen objects - were these alien crafts or could they be explained as otherwise). The crew asked Houston where s4b was - they replied it was 6000 miles away (for some reason houston didn't realise the significance of the question and never asked the crew what they wanted to know)

High Z particles did penetrate the apollo 11 crew. The crew did see flashes regularly inside the spacecraft - this was potentially disatrrous fro long periods of exposure.

Descent to the moon was the most dangerous part of the mission. They orbited the moon at 80 miles altitude - entered lunar module (eagle) and undocked. The lunar module had many weaknessess (33000 lbs?). The skin of the lunar module was very thin - as saving weight was so essential - The developement had been fraught with serious accidents and breakdowns - one of which almost cost Armstrong his life. His quick reactions in ejecting from the lunar module in training as it exploded probably assured him a ticket on Apollo 11.

The Lunar module had to orbit the moon before starting the dangerous descent. As it reappeared from behind the moon mission control could see that it had strayed off course - and then almost immediately communocation was lost. Communicatio was essential between houston and the lunar module and it was re-routed throught the command vehicle to the lunar module. But this didnt work very successfully either - communication was in and out for a long period.

When the lunar module switched the landing radar on, a catastrophic chain of events occurred. Alarms began to sound because the tiny computer on board became overloaded with data from the landing radar. Too much information coming in, overloaded, crashed. Mission control had no idea what the alarm meant either, except one person luckily in the backroom staff. Based on his decision mission control gave a thumbs up for the mission to continue so long as the alarm did not go off again, But the alarm kept going off again and again. Armstrong had to override the computer and take manual control of the lunar module. It was now off course and worst still the descent engine was running low on fuel. There was 2 minute of fuel left and the altitude was still 500 feet. - didnt look good - they hand never run the training simulations so close - acyually if it came this close they aborted and started again.

When the eagle did land it had only 15 seconds of fuel left

The Lunar module had only one ascent engine, which failed many times in testing phase, it had to work first time or there was no hope.

Just before the ascent from the moon, Aldrin noticed that the switch for the circuit breaker, essential for starting the ascent engine, had snapped off. Aldrin had to improvise and use a pen to push the circuit breaker in which in reality was an emergency repair.