Glynn Lunney
NASA engineer (1936-2021) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 84
Glynn Stephen Lunney was an American NASA engineer. Lunney was an employee of NASA since its creation in 1958, a flight director during the Gemini and Apollo programs. Lunney was on duty during historic events such as the Apollo 11 lunar ascent and the pivotal hours of the Apollo 13 crisis.
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Lunney (top left) with John Hodge and Jones Roach during Gemini 3
Standing at the flight director's console, viewing the Gemini 10 flight display in the Mission Control Center. Left to right: William C. Schneider, Glynn Lunney, Christopher C. Kraft Jr. and Charles W. Mathews.
Discussion in the Mission Operations Control Room during the Apollo 13 mission between Lunney (left) and astronauts James McDivitt and Deke Slayton
Lunney on console during the Apollo 16 mission
ASTP Project Directors Bushuyev (left) and Glynn Lunney during a meeting in Houston in 1973
Glynn Lunney (far right) as manager of the Shuttle program, at a press conference with Chris Kraft and Gene Kranz in 1981
Lunney in December 2008Awards
About this person
At the end of the Apollo program, he became manager of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first collaboration in spaceflight between the United States and the Soviet Union. Later, he served as manager of the Space Shuttle program before leaving NASA in 1985 and later becoming a vice president of the United Space Alliance.
