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Two groups of astronauts are listed below. One astronaut from Group 1 has mistakenly been placed in Group 2, and one astronaut from Group 2 was accidentally placed in Group 1.
Your mission, if accepted, is to find out what makes the 2 groups different and decide which astronauts have been switched!
Bonus points if you can figure out which ones belong in both groups and what the 3rd Group is! (The ones that belong in both groups were not switched).
Group 1
Malcolm Carpenter
Leroy Cooper, Jr.
James Lovell, Jr.
Virgil "Gus" Grissom
Walter Schirra, Jr.
Alan Shepard, Jr.
Donald "Deke" Slayton
Group 2
Neil Armstrong
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.
James McDivitt
John Glenn, Jr.
Michael Collins
David Scott
Your mission, if accepted, is to find out what makes the 2 groups different and decide which astronauts have been switched!
Bonus points if you can figure out which ones belong in both groups and what the 3rd Group is! (The ones that belong in both groups were not switched).
Group 1
Malcolm Carpenter
Leroy Cooper, Jr.
James Lovell, Jr.
Virgil "Gus" Grissom
Walter Schirra, Jr.
Alan Shepard, Jr.
Donald "Deke" Slayton
Group 2
Neil Armstrong
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.
James McDivitt
John Glenn, Jr.
Michael Collins
David Scott
Hint
The first group is Hg.The second group is my twin brother.
Answer
Group 1Malcolm Carpenter
-Leroy Cooper, Jr.-
*John Glenn, Jr.*
-Virgil "Gus" Grissom-
-Walter Schirra, Jr.-
Alan Shepard, Jr.
Donald "Deke" Slayton
Group 2
Neil Armstrong
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin
Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.
James McDivitt
*James Lovell, Jr.*
Michael Collins
David Scott
The ** astronauts are the 2 that were switched
Group 1 is the astronauts involved in Project Mercury of the United States space program. Hg is the chemical symbol for Mercury.
Group 2 is the astronauts involved in Project Gemini of the United States space program. Gemini is the Latin term for twins.
Leroy Cooper, Jr., Virgil "Gus" Grissom, and Walter Schirra, Jr. were originally part of Project Mercury, but ended up flying in Project Gemini also.
The 3rd Group would be Project Apollo as that was the next phase of the United States Space Program.
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