Glynn Lunney
contributorFlight Operations & Mission Control
NASA flight director whose teams led early Apollo missions and stabilized Apollo 13 during the critical hours immediately following its in-flight explosion.
- Primary role
- NASA flight director and program manager
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Biography
Place in spaceflight history
Lunney led flight-control teams for Apollo 7 and Apollo 10, served during Apollo 11, and directed the Apollo 13 shift that transferred survival functions to the lunar module and preserved a viable return trajectory. He later managed Apollo-Soyuz and Space Shuttle work.
His Apollo 13 shift demonstrated how trained teams could make deliberate, interdependent decisions with incomplete information during a life-threatening spacecraft failure.
Glynn Lunney’s archive record spans Flight director, Flight operations manager, Apollo-Soyuz program manager, Space Shuttle program manager through work connected with NACA, NASA Space Task Group, NASA Johnson Space Center, Rockwell International. The linked record places that work within Project Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, Apollo-Soyuz, Space Shuttle.
Career profile
Roles, organizations, and programs
Roles
- Flight director
- Flight operations manager
- Apollo-Soyuz program manager
- Space Shuttle program manager
Programs
- Project Mercury
- Gemini
- Apollo
- Apollo-Soyuz
- Space Shuttle
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- Project MercurySpaceflight program
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- GeminiSpaceflight program
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- ApolloSpaceflight program
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- Apollo-SoyuzSpaceflight program
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- Space ShuttleSpaceflight program
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- Sources reviewed
- August 10, 2026
- Information current through
- August 10, 2026