What was the problem?
They were almost out of fuel.
Highlight details in the text that indicate a problem.
Absolutely no one expected it to happen. They
painstakingly planned so it absolutely wouldn't couldn't
happen. But here they were less than five hundred feet
from the moon, and just about plumb out of fuel.
-Team Moon: How 400,000 People
Landed Apollo 11 on the Moon,
Catherine Thimmesh
They were too far from the moon.
They did not know how to land.