Astronaut Group 5

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NASA's Astronaut Group 5 (the 'Original 19') selected by NASA in April 1966. Of the Lunar Module Pilots that walked on the Moon, half came from Group 5. The group as a whole is roughly split between the half who flew to the Moon and the other half who flew Skylab and Shuttle, providing the core of Shuttle Commanders early in that program. (Only one member who flew during Apollo accomplished any subsequent space missions.) This group is also distinctive in being the only time when NASA hired a person into the JSC astronaut corps who had already earned astronaut wings, X-15 pilot Joe Engle.

Main article: List of astronauts by selection

A chart showing Group 5 assignments in relation to other astronaut groups. Graphed this way, it clearly shows how Group 5 military pilots were assigned ahead of Group 4, with most of Group 4 required to spend a full year at UPT to get qualified as jet pilots, which all of Group 5 (and Groups 1-3) had done early in their military careers).

Vance D. Brand

ASTP, STS-5, STS-41-B, STS-35

CMP, first joint U.S./U.S.S.R mission; Commander, first operational Space Shuttle flight

John S. Bull

Trained as Lunar Module Pilot. Resigned from the astronaut corps after learning that he was suffering from pulmonary disease.

Gerald P. Carr

Skylab 4

Trained as Lunar Module Pilot. Later he was Commander of Skylab 4

Charles M. Duke, Jr

Apollo 16

Lunar Module Pilot, fifth manned lunar landing. Tenth man to walk on the moon.

Joseph H. Engle

ALT, STS-2 and STS-51-I.

As the backup Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 14, he was expected to be selected as the LMP for Apollo 17, but was replaced by geologist Harrison Schmitt after Apollo 18 had been cancelled. Engle was the only shuttle pilot who had prior hypersonic flight experience, having earned his astronaut wings flying the X-15 rocket plane.

Ronald E. Evans, Jr

Apollo 17

Command Module Pilot, last manned lunar landing

Edward G. Givens, Jr

Killed in automobile accident in 1967 after serving on the Apollo 7 support crew.

Fred W. Haise, Jr

Apollo 13, ALT

Lunar Module Pilot, aborted lunar landing. Commanded the prototype space shuttle during testing. Was to command the original STS-2 flight to rescue Skylab in 1979.

James B. Irwin

Apollo 15

Lunar Module Pilot, fourth manned lunar landing. Eighth man to walk on the moon.

Don L. Lind

STS-51-B

Physicist. Most sources indicate he was a candidate as Lunar Module Pilot of the cancelled Apollo 21. Selected in 1973 to fly on Skylab Rescue if necessary; the mission was never flown. First mission in 1985, having waited 19 years, longer than any other American astronaut.

Jack R. Lousma

Skylab 3 and STS-3

Early he trained as Lunar Module Pilot for the cancelled Apollo 20. Later he was selected as Command Module Pilot for Skylab 3.

T. Kenneth Mattingly, II

Apollo 16, STS-4, STS-51-C

Command Module Pilot, fifth manned lunar landing. Flew on Apollo 16. Was the original Command Module Pilot for Apollo 13, but was grounded due to exposure to rubella, in which was not immune to. Also flew on the space shuttle twice as commander.