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NASA Astronaut Group 5 was a group of nineteen astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966. Of the six Lunar Module Pilots that walked on the Moon, three came from Group 5. The group as a whole is roughly split between the half who flew to the Moon, and the half who flew Skylab and Space Shuttle, providing the core of Shuttle commanders early in that program. This group is also distinctive in being the only time when NASA hired a person into the astronaut corps who had already earned astronaut wings, X-15 pilot Joe Engle. John Young labeled the group the Original Nineteen in parody of the original Mercury Seven astronauts.

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Jack Swigert, William R. Pogue, Vance D. Brand, Stuart Roosa, Ronald Evans, Paul J. Weitz, Ken Mattingly, John S. Bull, Joe Engle, James Irwin, Alfred Worden, Jack R. Lousma, Gerald Carr, Fred Haise, Edward Givens, Edgar Mitchell, Don L. Lind, Charles Duke, Bruce McCandless II, 

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