On Aug 26, 5:23*pm, Fred J. McCall wrote:
bob haller wrote:
niel did a excellent job as a pilot and astronaut, but lacked the
dynamic personality needed to help push for mars

I bet nasa management later regreted their decision to choose him as
first man on the moon.........

I'd bet they didn't, as if someone else had been in charge what we'd
have had was "first manned smoking hole on the Moon".

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"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
*territory."
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * --G. Behn

The astronauts were mostly combat experienced, and any of them could
of anded safely or aborted, to try again......