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Nov 25, 2019 at 2:13 history edited Russell Borogove CC BY-SA 4.0
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Apr 24, 2019 at 23:40 comment added Vikki An abort with the LM tilted 60 degrees? Sounds like some of my liftoffs in Kerbal Space Program...
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Mar 1, 2017 at 16:02 comment added Russell Borogove Or an astronaut inside the LM stumbles and falls against the low-side side wall, shifting the center of mass. I suspect they thought of dozens of possibilities that could go wrong at once (defective leg buckles as an astronaut throws himself at the wall during a moonquake, etc) and concluded there was less than 0.01% chance of toppling the LM from a 15 degree tilt.
Mar 1, 2017 at 11:01 comment added SF. I wonder if the restriction could be related to slippage risk. Imagine astronauts get out, and suddenly the LM deprived of their mass starts sliding down the slope at increasing speed...
Mar 1, 2017 at 4:27 history edited Russell Borogove CC BY-SA 3.0
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Feb 28, 2017 at 18:08 history edited Russell Borogove CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 18, 2016 at 3:26 history edited Russell Borogove CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 18, 2016 at 2:57 comment added Russell Borogove I'll update with an answer to that.
Aug 18, 2016 at 1:31 comment added Anthony X Prior to its lift-off, was Falcon's (Apollo 15 LM) tilt enough to make the engineers/controllers concerned, or was there confidence all around that it was within design limits and therefore of no consequence?
Aug 18, 2016 at 1:18 history edited Russell Borogove CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 18, 2016 at 0:39 history edited Russell Borogove CC BY-SA 3.0
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Aug 18, 2016 at 0:36 vote accept Anthony X
Aug 18, 2016 at 0:33 history answered Russell Borogove CC BY-SA 3.0