Although there were problems on every mission we flew during the apollo program. If you could look at the entire report, it is a book about that thick. It is in the archives so you could get it through freedom of information. And as an appendix it lists the problems, we call them anomalies, some people call them funnies, that happened on the flights. And they listed them museum air cally by flight auditor and you ignore apollo 7 and 8, they only have one spacecraft, they didnt fly a landing aircraft. Apollo 13 had the second least number of problems of all of the flights. We almost aborted apollo 14 and apollo 16. They had pretty Serious Problems they were able to work around and allowed them to land. So that was the nature of the business. And as i said, the very theme of this movie that carried very well was the story of somebody in problem, with problems, with a challenge, challenges really to face. And showed a group of people, a team in this case of Mission Control and ourselves.
The apollo 13 mission. This hour long interview was part of the oral history project. Oral history [ inaudible ] date is march 12, 1999. You cut your teeth in Mission Control as a Flight Controller responsible for spacecraft guidance and navigation. How did you manage to get in on the ground floor of a program like this . And what was your secret . It was not easy. I had actually tried to go to work for nasa in 1962 and the guy that interviewed me was gene kranz. Kranz and i couldnt get together on money so i said to heck with you and i went off and did something else. I went to General Dynamics in fort worth. But i knew i wanted to get there so bad. Finally two years later in 1964 i took a pay cut and went to work for kranz, with melbrooks and started out as a Flight Controller. The reason that i did, agina was what we were going to join up gemny with. I worked at the Satellite Test Center in california right after i got out of the air force in 1960. We flew those early flights from v
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