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[i]Monday, April 14, 1969, ended what the New York Times called "weeks of speculation" as to whether it would be Armstrong or Aldrin to first set foot on the moon. At an MSC press conference, George Low indicated that "plans call for Mr. Armstrong to be the first man out after the Mon landing... A few minutes later, Colonel Aldrin will follow Mr. Armstrong down the ladder."[/i]
[i]When the key people in charge of the simulations, notably MSC engineers George Franklin and Raymond Zedekar, concluded that the risk was far less when the commander went out first, the mission planners scratched the Gemini procedures and wrote new ones for Apollo.[/i]
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