On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 11:45:57 +0100, "Brian Lawrence"
wrote:

Recent insights into Deke's planning say that White was going to be moved on to AAP after
Apollo 1, so it seems debatable that he would have got a Gemini command in any
circumstances.

....Which begs the question: since AAP was, by then, considered the
portion of "Tomorrowland" that Disney decided to either scale down or
simply not build, what exactly did White do that knocked himself down
Deke's totem pole? AAP was where Deke was essentially exiling Astros
who weren't quite up to his specs - Al Bean was there, albeit
historically proven to be an error in assignment - Eliot See would
have wound up there had he not augered that T-38, Walt Cunningham was
exiled there after A7, although Donn Eisele apparently was in the BCMP
loop for a while in the same capacity.

So, what were Deke's justifications for his plans to toss White into
the AAP dungeon?

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