I highly recommend his book, “The Unbroken Chain.” I have a copy, and recently ordered a copy for my brother. It’s a very good read.

With all due love and respect...does anyone know where Günter Wendt?

I wonder where Guenter Wendt? RIP

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nice, I easily can see structures under camouflage.

My 3rd cousin was so smart :O

I love his strong german accent

How about some nice music with this video. A little Mozart, not to loud. Or anything else that's a proper fit for his beautiful soul.

You go Guenther, thank you for committment, your Contries thank you, you are the Man.

I saw the Dyna-Soar mockup at the NASA pavilion at the 1962 World' Fair (Seattle), I have always believed it was a huge mistake to cancel this valuable and advanced aircraft and solely concentrate on the "spam in a can" capsules. As you have stated the need for a winged space vehicle has become a priority again, your father's work was not wasted or forgotten and lives again in the new designs.

I'll sum up Geunter Wendt with this anecdote. When Gemini was over and Apollo was starting, the Astronauts demanded that North American aviation hire him as the pad leader from McDonnell Douglas. That pretty much sums up how good he was, and how much trust they had for him.

Looks like Bill Michael got the last laugh.

Mr Wendt certainly is one of the most iconic and well liked characters of the glory days of space exploration. I wish his book was reprinted, there's obviously significant demand for it judging by the sky high price it has reached on the second hand market...

Nazi!

Looks fantastic.

1:29 Armstrong wore an Accutron "Astronaut" tuning fork wrist watch as most of the X-15 test pilots did...

0:52 Haha, proof that no matter how strict he was on safety, Guenther had a sense of humor, giving that giant gag pair of pliers. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

He deserves a movie about his life.... Hi all from Montreal Canada ....

Humanity always needs these people that are beyond normal capabilities. He was a special person.

Kaiser of the launch pad.

Jim, you're all set!

1:30 civilian NACA pilot Neil Armstrong wearing an Accutron Astronaut wrist watch... as issued to X-15 & A12 pilots See: wristwatchlover.tumblr.com/archive

A CD-ROM? How cool!

All the astronauts loved Guenter. He would strap them in do one last check shake their hands and seal the hatch he was the last person they talked to before blasting off and was their last like of defence. A job he did remarkably

He was married to my grandmothers cousin :)

Dumb girls on this video. Why ?

The price of this book has gone way way up since its out of print. !!!

Hot Damn, that was exciting! Can you imagine how those guys felt making that flight? Whew, what a thrill!

May he soar where he sent his clients.

I worked at Motorola; the company who provided the S-band radio by which the TV signal was sent to Earth.

Thanks bro just found this :) Ian

lol genau DAS wollte ich gerade schreiben und überhaupt, was machst DU hier ?? DAS ist ja der hammer hehe...

list of people who believe we forgot how we went to the moon: you

god you're an idiot.

Aaah Gunther Wendt... I wonder where Gunther went. Zitate "Apolo 13" with Tom Hanks during preparation before start. I buyed me the VHS Kasette for 19.99DM in 1997 as a 12 year old kid and knew the name of this legend since then. But now in 2013 i receive the sad message about his death... well so long, hes in a place where hopefully everyone of us will meet again :) RIP Günther and we Germans are not picking on you why Günther went away :)

Hydrogen is not an energy source. It is a way to store energy. It can not replace oil or coal.

these truly are the giants shoulders we stand on.

RIP Neil Armstrong 1930-2012

BOEING, sorry!

The new X15 Being just FAILed this week, "They say". It rocketed straight for space!

13 different flights by eight pilots met the USAF spaceflight criterion by exceeding the altitude of 50 miles (80 km) thus qualifying the pilots for astronaut status. Of all the X-15 missions, two flights (by the same pilot) qualified as space flights per the international (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) definition of a spaceflight by exceeding 100 kilometers (62.1 mi, 328,084 ft) in altitude.

I thought I heard that X-15 pilots actually DID qualify for astronauts wings. Does anyone else know about that?

@davidt0504 Sure ... just collect as much energy as the sun puts out over its entire lifetime, use it to warp spacetime, and voila! Of course, once you've MADE an Alcubierre warp bubble, there's no guarantee that you can actually get it to MOVE through normal space, let alone move faster than c.

Guenter was a no compromises, total pro at his job, and who had a great sense of humour.

Why didn't X-15 pilots count as the first men in space? Does being in orbit only count.

Natasha Eloi, beauty and brains.

rip

Use english obviously..

Oops! My bad. That was an F-100c