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[i]Besides John Young, there was Alan Bean, the only other moonwalker remaining in the office. There were also some astronauts from the Skylab program: Owen Garriott, Jack Lousma, Ed Gibson, Paul Weitz and Joe Kerwin. One astronaut remained from the Apollo-Soyuz program, Vance Brand. One of the Apollo 13 crew was still aboard, Fred Haise. Ken Mattingly, the original Apollo 13 astronaut who was exposed to the German measles and replaced at the last moment, was still with NASA and at the table. He had later earned his wings on Apollo 16. The rest of the office included seventeen astronauts who were still waiting their first spaceflight. Seven had been dumped on NASA in 1969 by the USAF after the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program was canceled. The others had been selected in the late years of the moon program and had been in line to fly on Apollo 18 through 20...[/i]
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