Rest in Peace
RELEASE: J21-001
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Glynn Lunney is a 'legendary' Flight Director for NASA who served in the role of Flight Director or Lead Flight Director on numerous Apollo Missions including the famous
Apollo 13 mission popularized on film. Other missions he was the Flight Director on include Apollo-Saturn-201, 4, 7, 8, 11, 14, and 15. He served as lead flight director for Gemini missions 10 and 12, and was a flight director for Gemini missions 9 and 11. He worked for NASA for over twenty years, ranging from the Mercury Project to working on the Space Shuttle. After retiring in 1985, he worked in the private space industry for over another decade.
He passed away at the age of 84 after a long illness.
Lunney led Mission Control during some of NASA's most challenging and triumphant hours.
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