Flying to the Moon (2011)
“John Young was off to Orlando, Florida, for a home-town parade, but I didn’t really have a home town, so after a brief vacation at the beach I was ready to start working on Apollo. I had thought that the Gemini spacecraft was pretty complicated, but it seemed like a toy compared with the Apollo equipment. There were two Apollo spacecraft—the command module and the lunar module. The command module was scheduled to fly first, and my first job was to learn it. It was so complicated that I really f...elt stupid when I got inside it. There were so many pipes, valves, levers, knobs, brackets, dials, and handles—and I didn’t have any idea what most of them did. Not to mention switches. In the command module, there were over three hundred of one type of switch alone. I was assigned to a crew with Frank Borman and Tom Stafford. Frank was the commander, Tom was the command-module pilot, and I was the lunar-module pilot (although we didn’t have a lunar module yet). At that time we were the only crew with no rookies on it, and I thought we had a good chance to be the first men on the moon.MoreLess
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