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  • Thumbnail for Gemini 9A
    their spacecraft. Their deaths promoted the backup crew, Thomas P. Stafford and Eugene Cernan, to the prime crew. The mission was renamed Gemini 9A after...
    31 KB (3,754 words) - 01:52, 2 April 2024
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    first successful crewed Apollo mission was flown by Apollo 1's backup crew on Apollo 7 in October 1968. AS-204 was to be the first crewed test flight of...
    105 KB (11,808 words) - 01:53, 2 October 2024
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    the rest of the Apollo 15 backup crew or the Apollo 14 backup crew (except for Engle). Gordon's crew's experience as backup to Apollo 15 was more relevant...
    48 KB (6,166 words) - 21:25, 18 August 2024
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    mission had a prime and a backup crew. For Apollo, a third crew of astronauts was added, known as the support crew. The support crew maintained the flight...
    186 KB (19,719 words) - 01:18, 15 October 2024
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    of crew and vehicle. The Rogers Commission later determined the cause of the accident to have been the failure of the primary and secondary (backup) O-ring...
    19 KB (1,388 words) - 16:49, 9 September 2024
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    STS-4 (section Backup crew)
    flight crew members were assigned backups who could take their place within the prime crew. The decision on whether to appoint a reserve crew member was...
    13 KB (1,101 words) - 17:03, 26 September 2024
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    Apollo 17, because the Apollo program's crew rotation generally meant that a backup crew would fly as prime crew three missions later. Harrison Schmitt...
    118 KB (13,017 words) - 20:00, 5 October 2024
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    originally been named the backup crew, but after Charles Bassett and Elliot See died in a T-38 crash, they were moved to the backup crew for Gemini 9 and Alan...
    21 KB (2,320 words) - 06:43, 21 March 2024
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    as the crewed Soyuz 16 flight as a rehearsal in order to test the APAS docking mechanism. Another craft was used fully fueled as a "hot backup" at the...
    47 KB (5,167 words) - 00:16, 23 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for SpaceX Crew-10
    SpaceX Crew-10 is planned to be the tenth operational NASA Commercial Crew Program flight and the 17th crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft...
    7 KB (259 words) - 22:48, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jim Lovell
    The Gemini 9 backup crew of Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan became the prime crew of Gemini 9A, and Lovell and Aldrin became their backups. This positioned...
    96 KB (9,925 words) - 18:21, 15 September 2024
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    artist and animator Bill Bradley. As with a few other missions, the backup crew produced a spoof of the insignia, featuring an unlit torch, a lighter...
    21 KB (2,342 words) - 14:54, 9 February 2024
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    STS-3 (section Backup crew)
    support crews for Apollo 9, 10 and 13; he was the CAPCOM during the time of the latter mission's near-disastrous accident. He was also selected as backup Docking...
    20 KB (2,050 words) - 00:20, 8 September 2024
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    Apollo 8 (category Crewed missions to the Moon)
    time as the prime crew. When Lovell was reassigned to the prime crew, Aldrin was moved to CMP, and Fred Haise was brought in as backup LMP. Armstrong would...
    96 KB (11,463 words) - 15:34, 14 October 2024
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    lit. 'Sunrise-2') was a Soviet crewed space mission in March 1965. The Vostok-based Voskhod 3KD spacecraft with two crew members on board, Pavel Belyayev...
    28 KB (3,104 words) - 10:50, 27 September 2024
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    Soyuz 11 (category Crewed Soyuz missions)
    tuberculosis, and according to the mission rules, the prime crew was replaced with the backup crew. For Dobrovolsky and Patsayev, this was to be their first...
    27 KB (2,755 words) - 18:17, 12 October 2024
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    the backup crew of Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan, while Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin moved up from the backup crew of Gemini 10 to become the backup for...
    160 KB (16,994 words) - 02:45, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gemini 3
    Gemini 3 was the first crewed mission in NASA's Project Gemini and was the first time two American astronauts flew together into space. On March 23, 1965...
    16 KB (1,485 words) - 21:28, 4 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Skylab 4
    Skylab 4 (also SL-4 and SLM-3) was the third crewed Skylab mission and placed the third and final crew aboard the first American space station. The mission...
    41 KB (4,084 words) - 17:42, 28 September 2024
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    Project Gemini (category Crewed spacecraft)
    crashes during training, including both members of the prime crew for Gemini 9. The backup crew flew this mission. Gemini was robust enough that the United...
    69 KB (6,825 words) - 02:12, 30 September 2024
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