| Group 2 "The Next Nine" |
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| John Young 1st |
| Pete Conrad 2nd |
| Jim Lovell 3rd |
| Neil Armstrong 4th |
| Frank Borman 5th |
| Jim McDivitt 6th |
| Thomas Stafford 7th |
| Ed White 8th |
| Elliott See 9th |
| Had the best space career of all. |
| Although aloof since Apollo, his name will live forever. |
| So near, yet so far, twice! Yet he still manages to smile. |
| For taking Alan Bean to the moon with him. |
| To be polite, he never really tried to make us enthusiastic about going to the moon, but hell, he was first. |
| The first on the moon, of course, also showed great control and cool in Gemini 8 and LLTV accident. |
| Perfect Gemini 12 mission, first with four flights, articulatedescriptions from one of the first men to see the moon up close, active in scientific aspects of Apollo even after flight career ended in Apollo 13. |
| Piloted every American spacecraft ever built, except Mercury, excellent scientific work in Apollo 16. |
| First post Mercury astronaut to be given command, first mission with LM, took over Apollo Spacecraft Program Office, pushed for landing of Apollo 16 even though the 'safe' thing to do was to scrub the landing. |
| Long duration Gemini 5, rendezvous and docking in first orbit in Gemini 11, first pinpoint landing on the moon and helped save Skylab. |
| Thoroughly enthusiastic from the early Gemini right into the shuttle program, the natural born astronaut. |
| No matter what bad things have been told about him, he was the right man on the right spot at the right time - twice. |
| Universally acclaimed as being brilliant. I'd do whatever he said as commander. |
| First around the moon and an important role in getting Apollo back on track post fire. |
| Seems to me to be the perfect blend between fun and competence. |
| The most qualified man never to walk on the moon in my opinion. |
| Got the job done - first. |
| The first US space walk |
| What more needs to be said about the guy who's done more 'variety' than anyone else (as far as I can tell, anyway). And talk about longevity in the program! |
| I view Apollo 8 as just as important, if not more important, an event than Apollo 11 and I remember it clearly. Further, Apollo 13 is the textbook case for being about as dead as you can get without being dead (re: space travel), and as CDR the credit belongs to him. Lastly, he's just always struck me as a classy guy. |
| Should have been one of the Mercury 7. Devoted to the program and perhaps the best career of any astronaut. |
| Of his three spaceflights, two were horror stories. His Gemini flight was something I wouldn't wish upon anyone and Apollo 13 wasn't any better. But each time he did a masterful job. |
| Great leadership. His Apollo 12 was in my opinion the best example of teamwork for any mission. |
| Dared to call Big Al Shepard a rookie to his face, that makes him a star in my books. |
| Deserves a seventh flight, come on NASA get your act together. |
| Sheer class! |
| One small sentence for a man... One great quote for all time. |
| First commander to perform a TLI and a LOI burn. |
| Gave the space program his life so that all the other astronauts could look good. |
| Gemini, Apollo and Shuttle. Plus, the picture of him on the shuttle wearing glasses is priceless. |
| Not only a great astronaut, but a great guy. |
| Kept the fun in flying, but did good work and actually flew again after a moon walk. |
| Another who accepted missions after the highlights of moon missions - flown almost everything. |
| Apollo 8 CDR - a very important mission with relatively little man-rated experiences of Saturn V's and CM's. |
| Temperant perfectly suited to the status attached to the first lunar landing. |
| For the importance of Apollo 9 objectives. |
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