Pasure: The vashandi basa nokuda Gemini 8 akanga aziviswa musi September 20, 1965. Under kwomuzvarirwo kutenderera hurongwa, ari backup vashandi mumwe basa akava chikuru vashandi nokuda rechitatu basa pashure, asi Slayton akasarudzwa David Scott sezvo mutyairi Gemini 8. Scott aiva nhengo yokutanga rechitatu boka astronauts, vane kusarudzwa akanga aziviswa musi October 18, 1963, kugamuchira chikuru vashandi basa. Ona akasarudzwa kutungamirira Gemini 9. Henceforth, mumwe Gemini akatumwa nhengo boka Armstrong, ane nhengo boka Scott sezvo mutyairi. Conrad aizova Armstrong kuti rutsigiro nguva ino, uye Richard F. Gordon Jr. mutyairi wake. Armstrong akava wokutanga American yevagari mu nzvimbo.
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