I have a question about the Apollo 11 mission

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I was in Nam at the time of the landing and only learned of it about a week later by reading Stars and Stripes so I recently watched as many of the shows about the mission I could find.

My question is if Aldrin was the Lunar Module Pilot, why was it that Armstrong took manual control to pick a landing spot when he saw the spot they were heading for was not suitable?

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I read once that it is tradition (probably starting with the Apollo era) that there are no designated "co-pilots" on spacecraft. There are commanders (pilots) and pilots (co-pilots). So even though Aldrin had the designation of "pilot" he was in reality the co-pilot.
 
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Asking a "rocket science" question on this board??? Our combined IQ (63) cant help much.

I have never actually studied what happened so I'm no help.
 
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CorpsVet said:
I was in Nam at the time of the landing and only learned of it about a week later by reading Stars and Stripes so I recently watched as many of the shows about the mission I could find.

My question is if Aldrin was the Lunar Module Pilot, why was it that Armstrong took manual control to pick a landing spot when he saw the spot they were heading for was not suitable?

Thanks
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https://space.stackexchange.com/que...-when-aldrin-was-tasked-as-lunar-module-pilot Maybe this will help.
 

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