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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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Two Apollo missions were failures: a 1967 cabin fire killed the entire Apollo 1 crew during a ground test in preparation for what was to be the first crewed flight; [6] and the third landing attempt on Apollo 13 was aborted by an oxygen tank explosion en route to the Moon, which disabled the CSM Odyssey's electrical power and life support ...
In 1970, Mattingly was supposed to have joined the crew of Apollo 13, piloting the command module. But he was removed from the mission a few days before launch after being exposed to German measles.