This interview with flight director Glynn Lunney is from NASA’s oral history program at the Johnson Space Center.
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@dang1861 Жыл бұрын
How can these videos only have 6.9K views? This stuff is legendary!
@davidrobinson4118 Жыл бұрын
Because we live in the age of tiktok, twitter etc. Most people now days find it difficult to concentrate for more than a minute on a subject.
@HEDGE1011 Жыл бұрын
This interview is a national treasure with a genuine national hero. I know that Ken Mattingly felt strongly that Lunney was of utmost importance in getting Apollo 13 back, and listening to the tapes, he was magnificent on the console. I’ve always admired his competence and humility: he’s definitely one of the giants of spaceflight.
@powerfulstrong5673 Жыл бұрын
How about Clifford Charlesworth, Gerry Griffin, Milton Windler, and Pete Frank?
@HEDGE1011 Жыл бұрын
@@powerfulstrong5673 Did I speak badly of any of the other Flight Directors? No, I didn’t. This was not their interview.
@henryj.8528 Жыл бұрын
If you listen to the tapes, it's clear that the main burden fell on Lunney very early and he was magnificent. Lunney's team had to make a lot of irreversible decisions in short timeframes under extreme pressure that turned out to be correct.
@GetOuttaLineRecords8 ай бұрын
Impossible to find a Cliff Charlesworth interview…
@jshepard152 Жыл бұрын
Glynn Lunney was one of the titans of the early US space program. Rest in peace, Glynn.
@pjimmbojimmbo1990 Жыл бұрын
Lunney had, what was probably the Quickest Mind in Flight Control. He certainly was pivotal in the outcome of Apollo 13. He didn't get any recognition in Howard's Apollo 13(1995), which he damn well should have. Too many People think it was only Gene Krantz in Mission Control bringing 13 back. In one of the Clips of him in the seat, show him rolling his Eyes, as he was given more Bad News. Talk about what was at the time, almost a No Win situation
@eddo19833 жыл бұрын
I found out Lunney passed away in March this year. R.I.P.
@jshepard1522 жыл бұрын
One of the titans of early space flight. Rest in peace.
@Tramseskumbanan2 жыл бұрын
So sad to hear. Rest in peace.
@larrybliss83302 жыл бұрын
The intelligence of this man is most impressive.
@rsvp91462 жыл бұрын
Love watching all these interviews. As a chiId of the 80's, I was obsessed with NASA. So cool to hear all this now
@kf2478 Жыл бұрын
I was born in 1957 and would lay in the snow in my front yard in Lutherville, Md in the 60's and look up at the night sky and be all inspired to go into space... We now live in Clear Lake, TX in the shadow of NASA, (since 1986). It is fascinating to listen to the experts of the space program...
@dallasschwartz61312 жыл бұрын
I imagine he would have been a great boss to work for I had little patience for meetings that drug on and on with all manner of Bullsquat that had nothing to do with the job at hand. A hero in the fullest sense
@pjimmbojimmbo1990 Жыл бұрын
If I had ever had a Chance to meet a Flight Director, My Choice would have been Lunney. RIP
@glenwoodriverresidentsgrou1362 жыл бұрын
Gene Kranz’s team often gets a lot of the credit for figuring out how to get Apollo 13 back home, but I had not realized how much the other flight teams contributed as well. These guys were the best.
@HistoricSpaceStuff2 жыл бұрын
After one hour Kranz+team left to organise the backrooms and get a plan for the long term. All the critical parts after the incident were managed by Glynn Lunney and his black team. without such a plan. This shift had to improvise a lot of things very quickly without making this one fatal mistake. Including all the powering down and up and moving to the LM, getting on free return, getting a ptc. In what was arguably the most challenging shift in it's history. The movie giving him no credit is a big shame. But whoever and whatever, no team or flight director works alone. There is are big backroom staff and Windler, Griffin and Kranz came in and out, as did a lot of other people. Like astronauts coming from the simulator, advising the flight director. In these first hours mainly Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan. And i never understood how Movie(!)Kranz got so much praise anyway. I think he (again, not the real one!) is an absolute horrible flight director. He only barks at people, he shoots ideas down without listening. And his answer to problems is "i don't care, figure it out". That is not how Kranz or any FD works. The flight director audio for the first hours is on youtube. And apollo in realtime (google) has all the mission and all the audio from all the mission control channels. Which is a bit of an information overload. For apollo 11 and 13. And some interesting post-shift press conferences with all the flight directors.
@Esteb862 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. Glynn's team handled everything from power down, guidance transfer, getting back on free-return, and so on. That team was very critical in getting that ship home. There are 4 videos on KZfaq, the flight director loop, from end or the TV broadcast up to getting on free-return. It's absolutely fascinating.
@simonparker572 жыл бұрын
@@HistoricSpaceStuff Listening to the flight director loops is extraordinary. The difference in management styles between Kranz and Lunney is interesting, but it is very clear that they both lead their teams from the front. The sheer weight of critical information that Lunney had to handle during the 13 crisis is mind boggling. The fact that they got home suggests he made all the right calls in that incredibly tense few hours.
@peterwmdavis2 жыл бұрын
Agreed. Here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hd11ZM12y-CtXXU.htmlh07m08s is the flight director loop precisely when Lunney comes on shift during the incident, and you can hear him immediately start kicking butt for 8 hours. Here kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q9mapsqexreqj58.html is his press conference following the shift, which really shows how on top of things he was and his state of mind-not worrying about what went wrong, but what to do about it. Wonderful that we have these recordings of these historical moments.
@RRaquello2 жыл бұрын
@@HistoricSpaceStuff It's the nature of movies. You have two hours to put across a story, so they can only concentrate on a handful of "characters". Kranz was a more picturesque character than Lunney. Even the way he looked was more like what the public would expect of a flight director. Lunney looked more like a high school science teacher, while Kranz had the crew cut and was better at turning a movie-friendly phrase that could be put into a script. For the movie, they wanted John Wayne from "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon" as the flight director, and that's how they wrote the part. Another example is Jim Lovell. As a kid who followed the space program from Apollo 7 (I was 8 years old at that time), I was familiar with the public persona of Jim Lovell for most of my life. I'd seen him on television what must have been a hundred times in interviews and commentaries from the time I was about 8 years old until the movie came out 25 years later, but in the movie, the Jim Lovell character was just your generic action movie hero, no different than the hero of a thousand other movies. There was nothing about this character that distinguished him as Jim Lovell the individual we'd known since the 1960's. That's just Hollywood, where everything has to be simplified and dumbed-down.
@joez89147 ай бұрын
Had the pleasure of being very good friends with Glynn’s cousin. He had many fun stories of Glynn and him during their youths.
@ronaldtartaglia4459 Жыл бұрын
R.I.P to the absolute legend Glynn Lunney
@Aditi273 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much !! I was waiting for it 😊
@dallasschwartz61312 жыл бұрын
My only “issue” with his comments is that today NASA Mgmnt is so risk averse it’s not beyond the sense that if the present day group was in charge then we never would have made it to the Moon.
@jshepard152 Жыл бұрын
Today's NASA would need 75 years and more money than could be printed.
@HistoricSpaceStuff2 жыл бұрын
It's always amazing how crude mission control and nasa were in the early mercury days. Getting the crews for the tracking station in place was sometimes an adventure. Gene Kranz whos book is a hell of a lot more informative than the movie writes about that in detail. One time a station in africa was basically under siege, while they were talking to the spaceraft overhead.
@JimLovell-np4pv11 ай бұрын
At times they oriented by the stars! Fantastic!
@davidmoser35359 ай бұрын
To really understand what a Titan this man was, listen to the Apollo 13 tapes. This man was 2 steps ahead of his controllers.Enourmous RESPECT to the BEST FLIGHT CONTROLLER EVER. RIP.
@JimLovell-np4pv10 ай бұрын
i feel smarter just listening to this conversation
@parkburrets405411 ай бұрын
The idea from reading from Genesis on Apollo eight came from a French ambassadors wife. Kudos to her.
@PuffleFuzzАй бұрын
2 years before his son became a flight director.
@PuffleFuzzАй бұрын
Now they need to do one with Bryan.
@JimLovell-np4pv11 ай бұрын
What a fellow! A leader among leaders!
@henrivanbemmel6 ай бұрын
I think Kranz and Lunney worked the basic strategy for Apollo 13. Kranz could pull his team off console as a Tiger Team due, I expect, in large part in the respect and trust Kranz had in Lunney and his team. I'm not sure why many seem to need to 'rank' people during a crisis like Apollo 13. Naturally, the leaders of a team are the visible point persons, but the true success is truly a team one, the ENTIRE flight control team. Too often, in many undertakings, perhaps for brevity, one person is lauded for the accomplishments of all. It is false legend building. Yes, many of these managers made critical decisions, but these were only possible due to input and advice of many others. Far too often this is forgotten for the reader's convenience ... a lazy reason.
@Aditi273 жыл бұрын
Is this the complete version of interview ?
@HistoricSpaceStuff2 жыл бұрын
there are a lot of them in written form on the jsc history website. Lunney has done a lot of them.
@franciscoop10632 жыл бұрын
Fascinating....
@LaPabst Жыл бұрын
As good as Krantz, if not better. Less boss, more input.
@parkburrets405411 ай бұрын
Don’t forget: it was a Christian nation that went to the moon. Even for the nonbelievers, the culture that Christianity helped to make was key to advancing the civilization that was able to go to the moon.
@ronaldtartaglia4459 Жыл бұрын
Glynn Lunney legend. R.I.P
@nurlatifahmohdnor89392 жыл бұрын
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@nurlatifahmohdnor89392 жыл бұрын
I am unlearned. You are learned man.
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