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Apollo Discussions => The Reality of Apollo => Topic started by: Dr_Orpheus on July 31, 2015, 01:17:13 PM
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Insubordination on Apollo 7 got Cunningham and Eisele kicked off the flight roster, and Schweickart's nausea killed his chances of another mission. I've never heard why Anders or McDivitt never got additional mission assignments. Does anyone know?
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Cernan talks about Bill Anders in his autobiography.
He says that Anders didn't want to be a CMP again "Anders felt that he had done enough lunar orbiting on Apollo 8" so he turned down the chance to be CMP on A13. No-one knew the crew rotation or how many flights would be after A13 so he figured that his chances of getting onto a back-up crew, and then a Moon landing three missions later were pretty slim. Deke asked him to help out in Washington, which Anders reluctantly took up on the proviso that he would retain his flight status. Once he got into Washington his career was on a different track.
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Jim McDivitt was promoted into managing the Apollo Flight Office, so that wold have taken him out of the rotation (again from Cernan's autobiography- page 232)
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Going through the long training hours for two prime crew assignments with little chance of actually landing on the moon would be frustrating especially when Shepard was given a command assignment (originally on A13 if I'm not mistaken) despite his minimal space flight experience. You'd think Deke could have at least offered Anders a spot as an LM pilot. I guess McDivitt wasn't interested in any more Apollo flights.
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Going through the long training hours for two prime crew assignments with little chance of actually landing on the moon would be frustrating especially when Shepard was given a command assignment (originally on A13 if I'm not mistaken) despite his minimal space flight experience. You'd think Deke could have at least offered Anders a spot as an LM pilot. I guess McDivitt wasn't interested in any more Apollo flights.
Slayton had indicated that he wanted at least one of the original Mercury 7 to go to the moon. Cooper, Carpenter and Schirra were in the dog house, Glenn was in orbit in the Senate, Grissom was dead and he still had the heart problem. That left Shepard to command the A14, as NASA wanted to give him more time to train, since he hadn't been on the regular rotation with his ear problem.
McDivitt had already had a command and probably guessed that he would not have another command, but that is my surmise as I didn't know him.
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Maybe Burns the astronaut medium can ask Slayton's ghost the reason for some of the crew assignments. ;D
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Maybe Burns the astronaut medium can ask Slayton's ghost the reason for some of the crew assignments. ;D
lol, but will it be a verifiable source? :-X