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Originally Posted by Stylesjl
If a Moon landing was possible, in reality it was not, then surely it would make logical sense to send the astronaut who had the most space experience on the first Moon mission. An astronaut who had experienced long duration's of weightlessness in Earth orbit. Apollo 11 was Armstrong's second and final space mission, which of course was in low Earth orbit.
Dam im no good at this debunking
They had trained for years on earth in simulated conditions is this good enough (someone pleease expand on this)
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Actually, Apollo 10 and Apollo 11 were the only Apollo flights where
no rookie was on the crew.
A7: Schirra, Eisele (Rookie), Cunningham (Rookie)
A8: Borman, Anders (Rookie), Lovell
A9: McDivitt, Schweickart (Rookie), Scott
A10: Stafford, Cernan, Young
A11: Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins
A12: Conrad, Gordon, Bean (Rookie)
A13: Lovell, Swigert (Rookie), Haise (Rookie)
A14: Shepard, Roosa (Rookie), Mitchell (Rookie)
(As Shepard only had his 15-minutes Mercury hop, the A14 crew was also called the "All Rookie"-crew)
A15: Scott, Worden (Rookie), Irwin (Rookie)
A16: Young, Mattingly (Rookie), Duke (Rookie)
A17: Cernan, Evans (Rookie), Schmitt (Rookie)