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He led the mission control team credited with key actions that made it possible to save three Apollo 13 astronauts aboard a spacecraft disabled on the way to the Moon. Johnson Space Center. While he was one of the most famous NASA alumni, he was also one of the most humble people I have ever worked with. He was very supportive of the NASA team and was so gracious in the way he shared his wisdom with us.

Flight directors are responsible for leading teams of flight controllers, research and engineering experts, and support personnel around the world, and making real-time decisions critical to keeping NASA astronauts and missions safe and successful in space.

NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project Edited Oral History Transcript.

He retired from NASA in as manager of the Space Shuttle Program, but continued to lead human spaceflight activities in private industry with Rockwell International and, later, United Space Alliance until his retirement in He served as lead flight director for Gemini missions 10 and 12, and was a flight director for Gemini missions 9 and One of the most notable events in his career came April 13, , after an oxygen tank in the Apollo 13 service module exploded on the way to the Moon.

His team reacted quickly and effectively to prepare the astronauts and their spacecraft to complete a safe-return trajectory around the Moon and return home safely. It posed a continuous demand for the best decisions often without hard data and mostly on the basis of judgment, in the face of the most severe in-flight emergency faced thus far in manned space flight.

Perhaps, we could have been a little quicker at times but we were consciously deliberate.

Lunney: In the very early days, I remember when I got out of college—I got out of college in June of —and across my desk came a drawing of the Mercury.

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