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By the normal crew rotation in place during Apollo, Lovell, Mattingly, and Haise were scheduled to fly on Apollo 14, but the three of them were bumped to Apollo 13: there was a crew issue for Apollo 13 as none of them except Edgar Mitchell flew in space again.
Transposition, docking, and extraction (often abbreviated to transposition and docking) was a maneuver performed during Apollo lunar landing missions from 1969 to 1972, to withdraw the Apollo Lunar Module (LM) from its adapter housing which secured it to the Saturn V launch vehicle upper stage and protected it from the aerodynamic stresses of launch.
[10] [2]: 133–140 [11] Slayton continued to be responsible for making crew assignments, and determined the astronauts that would fly on the Gemini and Apollo missions. [2]: 166–168, 184 Slayton created a crew rotation, where a crew would be selected as the backup crew for a mission and would later be the prime crew three missions later.
The Apollo 11 crew returned to Earth on July 24, 1969, their capsule with its parachutes splashing down safely in the Pacific Ocean. Armstrong eventually returned to Wapakoneta for a homecoming ...
"Apollo 11 was a little different than some of the other flights," Collins explained. Mission commander Neil Armstrong was the flying ace, Buzz Aldrin the scholar. The three had never served ...
Under the normal crew rotation scheme, Armstrong was expected to command Apollo 11. [56] Aldrin photographs a geological specimen while Neil Armstrong looks on. Michael Collins, the CMP on the Apollo 8 prime crew, required surgery to remove a bone spur on his spine. [57] Lovell took his place on the Apollo 8 crew. When Collins recovered he ...
Based on the normal crew rotation, Armstrong would command Apollo 11, [100] with one change: Collins on the Apollo 8 crew began experiencing trouble with his legs. Doctors diagnosed the problem as a bony growth between his fifth and sixth vertebrae, requiring surgery. [102]
In Huntsville, Alabama, where the Saturn V was developed, thousands of model rockets were launched simultaneously, commemorating the moment the Apollo 11 crew blasted off for the moon.