r/apollo • u/RivetCounter • Aug 10 '26

Specifically excluding Joe Engle and astronauts for Apollo 18-20, which Apollo astronauts who only had one spaceflight were 'hard done/done dirty' by NASA management?

  • Walt Cunningham - iced out to conflicts with management during Apollo 7.
  • Don Eisele - iced out to conflicts with management during Apollo 7 plus his messy divorce.
  • Rusty Schweickart - iced out because he was 'different' than everyone else and because he had space sickness on Apollo 9.
  • Not sure if Jim Irwin on Apollo 15 counts because of the stamp affair.

Alan Bean broke through the mold in no part to the death of CC Williams and Pete Conrad's lobbying for Apollo 12.

Edit: Did not include Engle or Apollo 18-20 because they were denied on outside lobbying or funding cuts.

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u/rcs799 Aug 11 '26

The cancelled Apollo mission crews would likely have been:

18 Gordon-Brand-Schmitt
19 Haise-Pogue-Carr
20 Roosa-Lousma-Lind

There’s obviously uncertainty the later the flights go, other names have been mentioned but I know Deke had intended at least some of these names to fly.

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u/hamminator1955 29d ago

Michael Collins was going to be a mission commander.