To: billorites
Wasn't Buzz Aldrin originally supposed to be the first man to walk on the moon, until Neil Armstrong pulled rank?
To: Verginius Rufus
I don't think it was so much a case of pulling rank since Armstrong was a civilian - but from a PR standpoint, NASA felt it was in the best interest of the program not to have the GI go first.
135 posted on
09/12/2002 9:36:42 AM PDT by
stormer
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