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T O P I C R E V I E WFra MauroSince it's almost football season, let's play Monday morning QB. Since he didn't like long-duration missions with experiments, would it have been better to give Schirra Apollo 8 or 9, which were more of a test pilot's flight. Perhaps Borman, Cooper or Lovell would have been better suited for an 11-day earth orbital mission. That might hve led to fewer problem with Mission Control that happened on Apollo 7.Yanksman2001I think Apollo 7 was a perfect example of a test-flight; the first flight of a new spacecraft.Fra MauroIn many ways it was but, for example, in Gemini6, Schirra wanted the flight tobe brief and he didn't want a Stafford EVA.TomSchirra didn't want Stafford to do EVA on the original Gemini 6 mission involving the first Agena docking. However, when the flight plans changed to rendezvous with Gemini 7, Schirra thought it was a good idea for Stafford and Lovell to swap spacecraft. Borman wanted no part of that.ejectrNow knowing how little they knew about EVA...it's a good thing cooler heads prevailed.
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