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In article <30095@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, bwood@janus.uucp (Blake Philip Wood) writes:
> 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.
> 
Also read "Carrying the Fire" by Mike Collins.  According to Collins, the
schedule was for Conrad to command Apollo 11.  That was screwed up when
Collins, then scheduled to fly on Apollo 8, was taken off the flight list
because of a medical problem in his spinal column.  His backup flew on 8,
and the successive schedule was perturbed.  As a result, Conrad was bumped
back from commanding 11 to commanding 12.  Also as a result, Collins was
assigned to 11 after he recovered from surgery.  Good book.  In this time
of nostalgia, "Carrying the Fire" is another good book to read.

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