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   James McDivitt

   General McDivitt was selected as an astronaut by NASA in September 1962 as part of Astronaut Group 2.
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   List of astronauts by selection

   McDivitt was later Apollo Program Director and became the first general officer and would have been either the prime LM Pilot or backup commander for Apollo 14, but left NASA due to a conflict between Alan Shepard and Deke Slayton. ... Since then, a new group has been selected roughly every two years.
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   Project Gemini

   See NASA Budget. ... In late 1963, Slayton selected Alan Shepard and Thomas Stafford for Gemini 3, James McDivitt and Ed White for Gemini 4, and Wally Schirra and John Young for Gemini 5 (the first Agena rendezvous mission).
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   List of USAF Test Pilot School alumni

   Although the school no longer trains astronauts, many TPS graduates since 1972 have been selected by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for duties in space. ... ↑ "McDivitt Biography".
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   List of University of Michigan alumni

   Theodore Freeman, (COE: MSAE 1960), one of the third group of astronauts selected by NASA. ... James McDivitt, (COE: BSE AA 1959, ScD hon. 1965), graduated first in his class.
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   Thomas Patten Stafford

   Stafford was selected among the second group of NASA astronauts in September 1962 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to participate in Projects Gemini and Apollo. ... Neil Armstrong · Frank Borman · Pete Conrad · James "Jim" Lovell · James McDivitt · Elliot See · Thomas Stafford · Edward White · John W. Young
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   Neil Armstrong

   NASA. ... Neil Armstrong · Frank Borman · Pete Conrad · James "Jim" Lovell · James McDivitt · Elliot See · Thomas Stafford · Edward White · John W. Young
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   Moon landing

   The tight schedules and lofty goals selected by NASA for lunar exploration also had an undeniable element of generating counter-propaganda to show to other countries that American technological prowess was the equal and even superior to that of the Soviets. ... | Apollo 9 | Saturn V | James McDivitt, David Scott, Russell L. "Rusty" Schweickart | 3 March 1969 | Earth orbit | Success - ten-day manned Earth orbit, with EVA and successful manned flight / docking of lunar module |
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   David Scott

   Highlight of this evaluation was completion of a critical lunar-orbit rendezvous simulation and subsequent docking, initiated by James McDivitt and Russell Schweickart from within the lunar module at a separation distance which exceeded 100 miles (160 km) from the command/service module piloted by Scott. ... After NASA
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    Jim Lovell

    He was then selected in 1962 for the second group of NASA astronauts. ... Neil Armstrong · Frank Borman · Pete Conrad · James "Jim" Lovell · James McDivitt · Elliot See · Thomas Stafford · Edward White · John W. Young

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• James McDivitt,
• List of astronauts by selection,
• Project Gemini,
• List of USAF Test Pilot School alumni,
• List of University of Michigan alumni,
• Thomas Patten Stafford,
• Neil Armstrong,
• Moon landing,
• David Scott,
• Jim Lovell