Appendix C
Astronaut Flight Assignments
* Backup crew
First Group (7) Selected April 1959
|
Mercury |
Gemini |
Apollo |
Skylab |
| M. Scott Carpenter |
MA-6* MA-7 |
- |
- |
- |
| L. Gordon Cooper, Jr. |
MA-8* MA-9 |
V XII* |
10* |
- |
| John H. Glenn, Jr. |
MR-3* MR-4* MA-6 |
- |
- |
- |
| Virgil I. Grissom |
MR-3* MR-4 |
III VI-A* |
11 |
- |
| Walter M. Schirra, Jr. |
MA-7* MA-8 |
III* VI-A |
7 |
- |
| Alan B. Shepard, Jr. |
MR-3 MA-9* |
- |
14 |
- |
| Donald K. Slayton2 |
MA-73 |
- |
- |
- |
Second Group (9) Selected September 1962
|
Mercury |
Gemini |
Apollo |
Skylab |
| Neil A. Armstrong |
- |
V* VIII XI* |
8* 11 |
- |
| Frank Borman |
- |
IV* VII |
8 |
- |
| Charles Conrad, Jr. |
- |
V VIII* XI |
9* 12 |
2 |
| James A. Lovell, Jr. |
- |
IV* VII IX-A*4 X*4 XII |
8*5 11* 13 |
- |
| James A. McDivitt |
- |
IV |
1*1 9 |
- |
| Elliot M. See, Jr. |
- |
V* IX 6 |
|
- |
| Thomas P. Stafford2 |
- |
III* VI-A IX-A*6 |
7* 10 |
- |
| Edward H. White II |
- |
IV VII* |
11 |
- |
| John W. Young |
- |
III VI-A* X |
7* 10 13* 16 17*7 |
- |
Third Group (14) Selected October 1963
|
Mercury |
Gemini |
Apollo |
Skylab |
| Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr. |
- |
IX-A*4 X*4 XII |
8* 11 |
- |
| William A. Anders |
- |
XI* |
8 11* |
- |
| Charles A. Bassett II |
- |
IX6 |
|
- |
| Alan L. Bean2 |
- |
X*8 |
9* 12 |
3 |
| Eugene A. Cernan |
- |
IX-A*6 XII* |
7* 10 14* 17 |
- |
| Roger B. Chaffee |
- |
- |
11 |
- |
| Michael Collins |
- |
VII* X |
85 11 |
- |
| R. Walter Cunningham |
- |
- |
7 |
- |
| Donn F. Eisele |
- |
- |
7 10* |
- |
| Richard F. Gordon, Jr. |
- |
VIII* XI |
9* 12 15* |
- |
| Russell L. Schweickart |
- |
- |
l*1 9 |
2* |
| David R. Scott |
- |
VIII |
1*1 9 12* 15 17*7 |
- |
| Clifton C. Williams, Jr, |
- |
X*8 |
|
- |
Fourth Group (6) Selected June 1965 (Scientist Astronauts)
|
Mercury |
Gemini |
Apollo |
Skylab |
| Owen K. Garriott |
- |
- |
- |
3 |
| Edward G. Gibson |
- |
- |
- |
4 |
| Joseph P. Kerwin |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
| Harrison H. Schmitt |
- |
- |
15* 17 |
- |
Fifth Group (19) Selected April 1966
|
Mercury |
Gemini |
Apollo |
Skylab |
| Vance D. Brand2 |
- |
- |
15* |
3* 4* |
| Gerald P. Carr |
- |
- |
- |
4 |
| Charles M. Duke, Jr. |
- |
- |
13* 16 17*7 |
- |
| Joe H. Engle |
- |
- |
14* |
- |
| Ronald E. Evans2 |
- |
- |
14* 17 |
- |
| Fred W. Haise, Jr. |
- |
- |
11* 13 16* |
- |
| James B. Irwin |
- |
- |
12* 15 17*7 |
- |
| Don L. Lind |
- |
- |
|
3* 4* |
| Jack R. Lousma2 |
- |
- |
|
3 |
| Thomas K. Mattingly II |
- |
- |
139 16 |
- |
| Bruce McCandless II |
- |
- |
- |
2* |
| Edgar D. Mitchell |
- |
- |
10* 14 16* |
- |
| William R. Pogue |
- |
- |
- |
4 |
| Stuart A. Roosa |
- |
- |
14 16* 17*7 |
- |
| John L. Swigert |
- |
- |
13*9 |
- |
| Paul J. Weitz |
- |
- |
- |
2 |
| Alfred M. Worden |
- |
- |
12* 15 17*7 |
- |
Sixth Group (11) Selected August 1967 (Scientist Astronauts)
|
Mercury |
Gemini |
Apollo |
Skylab |
| William B. Lenoir |
- |
- |
- |
3* 4* |
| F. Story Musgrave |
- |
- |
- |
2* |
- Grissom, White, and Chaffee killed in fire on pad; flight canceled
- Stafford, Slayton, and Brand announced as crew of Apollo Soyuz Test Program, 30 Jan. 1973; Bean, Evans, and Lousma selected as backup crew
- Slayton removed from flight for heart condition, replaced by Carpenter
- Originally backup to Gemini X; moved to same position on IX when See and Bassett were killed
- Replaced Collins who had undergone surgery
- See and Bassett killed in aircraft accident, replaced by Stafford and Cernan
- When Irwin resigned on 23 May 1972, he, Worden, and Scott were replaced by Young, Roosa, and Duke
- Replaced original Gemini X backup crew
- Swigert replaced Mattingly, who had been exposed to measles, just before the flight