Re: Apollo 13 / 14

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:45:01 GMT, fairwater@xxxxxxxxx (Derek Lyons)
wrote:

Richard Fangnail <richardfangnail@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

When they did Apollo 14, why couldn't they use some of the astronauts
who had been on Apollo 13?

Because the 14 crew was already well along in their training pipeline
by the time 13 flew.

D.

I was thinking that, too, but...

wasn't 14 originally going somewhere else? When they decided that 14
would go where 13 was supposed to go, did they need new training for
their new mission, or wasn't it that specialized?
.

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