"You're Go For Fra Mauro! | Apollo 14 Lunar Landing | February 5 1971

Video from the channel Manned Space about Apollo 14, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 5:25. Language: English. Video type: Documentary.

Excerpt from a documentary piece on the Apollo 14 mission focused on the descent of the Antares lunar module, with present-day narration over the communications and NASA archive footage. It covers the onboard computer failure, the fix provided from the ground, and the landing by Shepard and Mitchell.

While the two spacecraft were separating, the Antares computer mistakenly entered abort mode. Had this happened during the descent, it would have fired the main engine and aborted the landing. Mission Control rewrote the Antares's landing program, the problem was resolved, and the crew was cleared to descend.

The original communications call out altitude, descent rate and remaining fuel, which drops to around 6% before touchdown, and the crew confirms a good landing. The narration notes that almost ten years had passed since Shepard's 15-and-a-half-minute suborbital flight, and that the Antares landed closer to its target point than any Apollo mission before it.