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The Apollo 12 astronauts spent five hours in mission-specific training for every hour they expected to spend in flight on the mission, a total exceeding 1,000 hours per crew member. [23] Conrad and Bean received more mission-specific training than Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin had. [ 24 ]
Slayton was responsible for making all Gemini and Apollo crew assignments. In March 1972, Slayton was restored to flight status, and flew on the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project mission. The prime crew members selected for actual missions are here grouped by their NASA astronaut selection groups, and within each group in the order selected for ...
Alan LaVern Bean (March 15, 1932 – May 26, 2018) was an American naval officer and aviator, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, NASA astronaut and painter.He was selected to become an astronaut by NASA in 1963 as part of Astronaut Group 3, and was the fourth person to walk on the Moon.
The Earth-orbit test would become Apollo 9. [32] The crew who had been scheduled for Apollo 8, led by Jim McDivitt, became the Apollo 9 crew, [33] and Worden became part of that mission's support crew along with Mitchell and Jack Lousma. [34] Worden was named as backup command module pilot (CMP) for the Apollo 12 flight.
Conrad during his Apollo 12 EVA training Conrad descends the Lunar Module ladder, moments before becoming the third human to walk on the Moon Pete Conrad's quote while descending the LEM ladder Conrad was assigned in December 1966 to command the backup crew for the first Earth orbital test flight of the complete Apollo spacecraft , including ...
Apollo 13 was slated to be the third landing on the moon after Apollo 8 (1968) and Apollo 12 (1969). Launched on April 11, 1970, the crew was led by commander Lovell, along with command module ...
John W. Aaron (born 1943) is a former NASA engineer and was a flight controller during the Apollo program.He is widely credited with saving the Apollo 12 mission when it was struck by lightning soon after launch, and also played an important role during the Apollo 13 crisis.
Robert John Burke as William Anders, Apollo 8 crew member, episode 4. Dave Foley as Alan Bean, Lunar Module pilot on Apollo 12 in episode 7. [1] Daniel Hugh Kelly as Eugene Cernan, Gemini veteran and lunar module pilot of Apollo 10 in episode 5, backup commander of Apollo 14 in episode 9, and commander of Apollo 17 in episode 12, "Le Voyage ...