Milton L. Windler
contributorFlight Operations & Mission Control
NASA flight director who led Apollo 13 and later flight-control teams during Apollo lunar exploration.
- Primary role
- NASA Apollo flight director
- Lifespan
- 1932–present
- Relationships
- 6
- Sources
- 3
Biography
Place in spaceflight history
Windler became one of Apollo's four principal flight directors, led Apollo 13, organized the Mission Control team that evaluated recovery options, and continued through later Apollo flights.
His teams translated spacecraft and trajectory constraints into operational plans during Apollo's most demanding recovery effort.
Milton L. Windler’s archive record spans Flight controller, Flight director, Mission operations manager through work connected with NASA Manned Spacecraft Center. The linked record places that work within Apollo, Skylab, Space Shuttle.
Career profile
Roles, organizations, and programs
Roles
- Flight controller
- Flight director
- Mission operations manager
Organizations
Programs
- Apollo
- Skylab
- Space Shuttle
Archive relationships
Named records, programs, and organizations connected to this archive identity.
- Apollo 13Served as lead flight director and directed the recovery planning team
- Apollo 15Served as a flight director during the first J-mission
- NASA Manned Spacecraft CenterCanonical organization
- ApolloSpaceflight program
- SkylabSpaceflight program
- Space ShuttleSpaceflight program
Sources
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