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unusual facts about Apollo mission



Heinz Kaminski

In 1967 Kaminski installed a 20 meter parabolic antenna in a radome, with which all Apollo missions were followed.

Paul Werner Gast

In 1969 Paul Gast assumed leadership of the geo-science management of the Manned Spacecraft Center in preparation for Apollo mission sample return from the Moon.


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305th Air Mobility Wing

Having later commanded the Gemini 3 mission in 1965, Lieutenant Colonel Grissom was assigned as commander for the first manned Apollo mission, but was killed with the rest of his crew during a fire in his Apollo 1 capsule during a pre-launch rehearsal on Pad 34 at Cape Kennedy, Florida in January 1967.