
20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin are about to make history. Harnesses tied to the walls of the narrow space of the lunar module of Apollo XI, both expect the moon landing astronauts that become the first men on the surface of the Moon, the first step in an alien land.
In the central computer, a red light indicates the alarm has occurred in the 1201 panel of instruction, description of the problem is too cryptic, understandable only to the programmer who created it. He is from Houston who reassures them: the amount of information you are getting the computer is too large to process in real time and warns that there is only a slight delay. The decline may continue. The flashing red light accelerates.
"1202 alarm". News of Houston are not yet so-stressing: the computer can no longer, no longer reliable and there are, at this point, two alternatives. The first, abort, release the lander and begin the ascent to return to lunar orbit. The second, take the controls and lowered manually. After years of training and 400,000 kilometers, watching the lunar soil so close, its berths Armstrong broke loose and, with the aid of instructions Aldrin continued the descent. First, a rocky terrain. On the second attempt, a slope too steep.
The third, a phrase from Houston: "Eagle 30 seconds." Just the time remaining fuel: o land or turn around. Soon after, a phrase commonly attributed to Armstrong and Aldrin actually uttered: "Houston, this base, tranquility, the eagle has landed."