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The Apollo Lunar Module could be landed manually without the primary guidance computer.
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INSUFFICIENT LEANING
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The retrieved documents discuss descent guidance algorithms, manual backup abort techniques, and semi-automatic landing override modes, but do not contain direct evidence establishing whether the Apollo Lunar Module could be fully landed manually without its primary guidance computer.

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2024 · cited by 1
The mission requirements of crewed space vehicles flown by NASA drove the development of new techniques for burn targeting and guidance for ascent, rendezvous, lunar landing, and deorbit. The Saturn V Iterative Guidance Mode used an approximately optimal steering law that could adjust the trajectory to compensate for performance issues while meeting trajectory constraints at propulsion-system cutoff. Hypersurface targeting provided constraints for the Saturn V Trans-Lunar Injection burn. E Guidance, in quadratic- and linear-acceleration forms, provided closed-loop descent and ascent guidance for the Apollo Lunar Module. The Space Shuttle’s Powered Explicit Guidance algorithm was more flexible than Apollo-era guidance algorithms, and it had better convergence characteristics, enabling it to support challenging abort profiles. The Space Launch System has built on the heritage of the Space Shuttle’s guidance algorithm. The Orion spacecraft’s Two-Level Targeter enables onboard, autonomous targeting of an entire mission profile subject to three-body dynamics in cislunar space. Orion uses Shuttle-derived guidance as the basis for an orbit-guidance package with more capability than guidance algorithms of previous vehicles.
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# Could an Apollo LM land uncrewed? Tags: apollo-program, lunar-landing, uncrewed-spaceflight - Score: 21 - Views: 3559 - Answers: 2 - Answered: yes - Asked by: Russell Borogove (176648 rep) - Asked: 2017-05-24 - Edited: 2019-08-01 - Site: space ## Question I believe that Apollo mission control had the ability to upload data and commands to the LM's guidance computer as long as they had an operational communications link. I'm wondering if, from the point of separation from the CSM, there was any necessary procedure for landing which absolutely had to be done by an astronaut in the cockpit? Some points of interest: After the braking phase of descent, the guidance computer would default into the P65 program, which was designed to do an automatic touchdown; all the Apollo mission commanders overrode P65 into P66, the semi-automatic mode, so they could choose the exact landing site. (Jim Lovell of Apollo 13 claimed he intended to use the automatic landing if it looked safe to do so, but never got the chance). The LM did the Descent Orbit Insertion (DOI) burn while out of contact with mission control; let's assume that either the flight plan changed to do two smaller burns just b
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  1. Onboard Burn Targeting and Guidance of NASA Human Flight Vehiclespeer-reviewedno side taken
  2. Could an Apollo LM land uncrewed?referenceno side taken
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