At 102:42, Flight Director Gene Kranz - a veteran of spaceflight control since the dawn of American manned spaceflight - polled his flight control team for the final time:
Okay, flight controllers: GO/NO-GO for landing.
RETRO? "GO!"
FIDO? "GO!"
GUIDANCE? "GO!"
CONTROL? "GO!"
TELMU? "GO!"
GNC? "GO!"
EECOM? "GO!"
SURGEON? "GO!"
CAPCOM, we are GO for landing.
102:42:08 (CAPCOM): "Eagle, Houston. You're GO for landing. Over."
102:42:17 (LMP): "Roger. Understand. GO for landing. 3,000 feet [altitude]."
Right after acknowledging the GO for landing, another program alarm occurred, this time a 1201 - another overflow condition.
102:42:25 (CAPCOM): "We're GO. Same type [of alarm]. We're GO."
102:42:31 (LMP): "2,000 feet [altitude]."
Another 1202 program alarm cropped up at 102:42:41 - still GO!
"[I]f we fail, then the whole world,…all that we have known and cared for…will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that…men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'”
I know the official transcripts have Armstrong saying, "Roger, Understand, go for landing..." The audio sounds like he says, "Roger, Houston, go for landing..."
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