Apollo 11 in a very direct fashion was the day that i got the assignment to do the landing phase. Cliff charles worth was the lead flight director. One of the responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. And moving in there, this was the First Mission where in apollo now, where we had been flight directors on gemini, we were coming back together again. So you had probably the three most experienced people at the koi council, and it was a question of who was going to get to do what. Lonnie had been to the moon a couple times. Cha charl charlesworth had launched saturns. I had lunar experience. You had no driver that said this person ought to be doing this phase of the mission. I was division chief at that time and kraft had been really on top of us to nail down who is going to do what until finally after the apollo 9 mission we all managed to get together, and charlesworth as lead had to make the calls. I
This interview is from nasas oral history program. Apollo 11. You were the Lunar Landing flight director. You were in charge of that. But you also took part in the whole thing, didnt you . Yes. Lets go back over apollo 11. What a thing to go over. That is a big project. There are many things that stand out to you. When a person says, where were you when . I had sure had an awful lot of great breaks in my life. Whether they be in college, whether they be in flying airplanes. But one of the ones i remember that was related to apollo 11 in a very direct fashion was the day that i got the assignment to do the landing phase. Cliff charlesworth was the lead flight director. And one of the responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which flight director is going to cover which phase of the mission. And im moving in. This was the First Mission where, in apollo, where charlesworth and myself were actually coming back together again. So, you had probably the three most experienc
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