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Milt Windler, NASA Apollo 13 flight director, has died
Original: RE: https:// mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1 17378693503152674 Godspeed, Milt Windler 🚀 # Apollo13 # NASA # Friendswood #
Milt Windler, one of NASA's flight directors during the Apollo program, has died. He was one of the four flight directors who guided Apollo 13 safely back to Earth in 1970 after an oxygen tank explosion crippled the spacecraft. Tributes are coming from the space community, with Ars Technica noting the loss and readers remembering his role in one of NASA's finest hours. He lived in the Friendswood, Texas area near the Johnson Space Center.
Why now: People are mourning and paying tribute to a key figure of the Apollo era following news of his death.
Milt WindlerNASAApollo 13Friendswood, TexasArs Technica
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