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Thought Leader Series with Apollo Flight Director Glynn Lunney

Space Center Houston hosted a special evening with Apollo flight director Glynn Lunney on Nov. 15. One of five flight directors during the Apollo Era, Lunney helped bring home Apollo 13 and was chief of the Apollo flight directors. Glynn Lunney had a long and storied career, beginning when NASA was founded in 1958 and ending nearly 30 years later during the Space Shuttle Program. Lunney began his NASA career at the Cleveland Lewis Center in 1958 and was soon supporting the Space Task Group in Langley, Virginia where the Mercury Project was taking shape. He engaged in simulation planning, launch and re-entry studies, which led to focus on how trajectory control would be exercised in the new Mercury Control Center. This would be the role of the flight dynamics officer. In that capacity, Lunney worked that console at Bermuda for several uncrewed Mercury flights and the last three crewed Mercury flights at the Mercury Control Center in Florida. He was selected to be a flight director for Gemini and Apollo, operating on many of those flights. Most notably, he orchestrated the return home plan for Apollo 13 and was chief of the Apollo flight directors. After Apollo, Lunney used his skills to manage the transport craft for Skylab and the historic Apollo/Soyuz mission in 1975, which featured the first international rendezvous and docking. The emerging Space Shuttle Program created the need for a servicing function for payloads from NASA, the Department of Defense and the Commercial (Comsats) and Lunney managed that office. Lunney then went to NASA Headquarters as deputy associate administrator for space flight and then one as associate administrator for operations before moving back to Houston to manage the Space Shuttle Program from its second flight through June 1985. As an industry leader, he supported the Clear Lake Economic Partnership efforts, with one year as chairman, and the University of Houston at Clear Lake in their development planning.