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Guest Postponement - ED MITCHELL now attending April 2015


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Due to a change in Ed's schedule he will now be joining us at our April 2015 event

 

If you have a photo ticket for the September show these can be carried over to April or a refund can be issued on request, please contact the office after 10th September.

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Personally I think it's possible to get a bit hung up on moonwalkers, of course it's always great to have them but at the same time people like Al Worden and Tom Stafford were every bit as important to Apollo as any of the twelve moonwalkers. I believe Neil Armstrong frequently expressed a similar view.

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I agree with the Count. Neil said the CMP's were second in command and had the very hard job of getting the crew there and getting them back in one piece. The moonwalkers have more prestige with the public at large, but those of us who have looked at the Apollo missions also know that fate and luck had a large part in who walked on the moon and who didn't - and any of the 'non moonwalkers' could have been selected, if circumstances had played out differently.

 

Dick Gordon was down to command Apollo 18 but it got cancelled... Jim Lovell could have been on Apollo 11 instead of Buzz, and we all know what happened on Apollo 13...it could easily have been Frank Borman, Tom Stafford or Jim McDivitt as first man on the moon; Alan Bean and Charlie Duke only got their chances because of a chain of events....Harrison Schmitt was more or less put on Apollo 17 at all costs by outside influence and so Joe Engle lost his place and completely missed out....the list goes on and on. But yes, the public don't see this, or aren't necessarily interested in the reasons behind the shuffling of the pack.

 

Anyway, you can ask Tom Stafford all this at his lecture if he does a Q+A :)

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the statements are true. But my interests are in the completion of my Apollo collection. I was lucky enough to meet a few astronauts (some even several times in private surroundings)

 

-Dick Gordon

-Jim Lovell

-Buzz Aldrin

-Tom Stafford

-Gene Cernan

-Charlie Duke

-Fred Haise

-Alfred Worden

-Walt Cunningham

-Rusty Schweickart

-Jack Lousma

-Ed Mitchell

-Alan Bean

 

I'm still looking for the missing or the completion of certain photos whether there are moonwalker or not.

 

Cheers

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