Posted on February 8, 2017
The abort system had two basic control modes, “attitude hold” and “automatic.” In automatic, the computer would take over the guidance and start looking for the command module, which was certainly not what the crew intended to do at that moment. While correcting for a minor yaw-rate-gyro disturbance, the astronauts accidentally switched the spacecraft to the automatic mode, resulting in frantic gyrations.
Lunar Module Staging Video
3-Still taken from 16-mm sequence camera Mag F during the LM staging
2-CM from LM
1-LM