NASA Johnson
Space Center Oral History Project
The oral histories
on this Website are the transcripts from audio-recorded, personal interviews
with many who pioneered outer space and the Moon, and with those who
continue the excitement of space exploration. To preserve the integrity
of the audio record, the texts are presented with limited revisions
and thus reflect the candid conversational style of the oral history
format. Brackets and ellipses indicate where the text has been annotated
or edited for clarity. The date of each interview is noted on the first
page.
If available, the Biographical Data Sheet provided
background information for the Oral Historian to prepare for the interview.
A project research historian submitted the data sheet on the date listed
at the end of the file.
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Glynn
S. Lunney
| Apollo
13 Narrative: Flight Director Glynn Lunney expected
a quiet night on the console as he began his shift on the evening
of April 13, 1970. But, soon after, while the Apollo XIII crew performed
a routine procedure, an explosion occurred onboard their spacecraft.
For the next 14 hours, Lunney says he experienced what he considers
to be the best piece of operations work he ever did or could hope
to do.
Read his description of how the incident “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.”
In this narrative he shares “through one decision, one choice,
and one innovation at a time,” the team at Mission Control
at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston worked together to
bring the Apollo XIII crew safely home.
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13 Narrative |
Apollo XIII HTML |
Apollo XIII PDF |
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| March
9, 1998 |
HTML |
PDF
(131K) |
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| January
28, 1999 |
HTML |
PDF
(166K) |
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| February
8, 1999 |
HTML |
PDF
(134K) |
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| February
26, 1999 |
HTML |
PDF
(123K) |
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| March
30, 1999 |
HTML |
PDF
(93K) |
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| April
26, 1999 |
HTML |
PDF
(210K) |
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| October
18, 1999 |
HTML |
PDF
(124K) |
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| December
9, 1999 |
HTML |
PDF
(152K) |
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| January
13, 2000 |
HTML |
PDF
(154K) |
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| March
9, 2000 |
HTML |
PDF
(129K) |
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| Biographical
Data Sheet (109K PDF) |
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