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From: Blake Philip Wood
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1989 16:26
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1989 16:26
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Eugene Cunningham's book about the Apollo program (I forget the title)
provides an interesting perspective on several issues which I've not
seen elsewhere. Cunningham, if you'll remember, flew on Apollo 7.
According to him, the crews of the Apollo flights were basically decided
early on, without particular regard to what the flight missions were.
For a long time Apollo 12 was to have been the first moon landing, but
the successes of the earlier flights allowed NASA to move it up to
Apollo 11. Cunningham states that the smart money within NASA (and
there were bets made) was placed on Charles Conrad to do the first
moonwalk. As it turned out, Conrad made the third moonwalk on Apollo 12.
Blake P. Wood - bwood@janus.Berkeley.EDU
Plasmas and Non-Linear Dynamics, U.C. Berkeley, EECS
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!janus!bwood From: bwood@janus.uucp (Blake Philip Wood) Newsgroups: sci.space Subject: Re: Apollo 8, 9, and 10 and Apollo books Message-ID: <30095@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 19 Jul 89 16:26:34 GMT Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: bwood@janus.UUCP (Blake Philip Wood) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 15