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by rwmj 1239 days ago
The Apollo astronauts also had to rank each other, with that feeding into who got assigned to missions. (I'm not saying this was or was not a good idea - probably too small a sample size and they were all superstars - only that it was a thing that happened). [Source: https://space.stackexchange.com/a/23149]