Original sentence: At one point Dr.Bellows tells Tony he was about to retire "and then you came to the base"; on many occasions he also mentions that his life has been much more eventful in the time since Tony arrived.But several real astronauts did make second and third flights.Charles Conrad, James Lovell, Thomas Stafford, and John Young were the only astronauts to fly two Gemini missions; 15 astronauts made both Gemini and Apollo flights during the series' five-year run.He finally flew again in Shuttle Discovery flight STS-95 in 1998).However, the astronauts were leased Corvettes for $1 a year through a government program (although to avoid fraud charges, the cars were often actually leased to their wives.I Dream of Jeannie's NASA also was far more military-oriented than the real NASA.In real life, NASA did not operate as such.Jeannie's NASA was governed along a strict military hierarchy.NASA has always hired more astronauts than it has seats on flights, and there was an emphasis on rotation, so that other astronauts would get equal opportunity in space (John Glenn was grounded after his Mercury flight Friendship 7 in 1962, for fear of anything risky happening to such a celebrity.The NASA shown in the series appears to be launching a few more flights than real-life NASA, since Tony makes it into space at least three times during the series.The only real astronaut to fly on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft was Wally Schirra (Mercury Sigma 7, Gemini 6, and Apollo 7).This would seem to suggest that Tony found Jeannie's bottle on the island only a few weeks after being assigned to NASA, however most astronauts trained for several years before flying missions.Tony drives a Pontiac GTO.Virtually all the NASA characters were portrayed as active duty military personnel and commanders
Edited sentence: Charles Conrad, James Lovell, Thomas Stafford, and John Young each flew two Gemini missions; 15 astronauts made both Gemini and Apollo flights during the series' five-year run.I Dream of Jeannie's NASA was depicted as far more military-oriented than the real NASA.In real life, NASA did not operate in this manner.Several real astronauts did make second and third flights.Virtually all the NASA characters were portrayed as active duty military personnel and commanders and Jeannie's NASA was governed along a strict military hierarchy.Wally Schirra was the only astronaut to fly on the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft (Mercury Sigma 7, Gemini 6, and Apollo 7)