Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
Summary
Milt Windler, a NASA flight director who helped manage the Apollo 13 mission and several other key space missions, has died at age 94. He played important roles in bringing astronauts safely back to Earth and overseeing many historic space missions in the 1960s and 1970s.Key Facts
- Milt Windler died at age 94 surrounded by family.
- He was a NASA flight director from 1968 and managed crews on Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab programs.
- Windler was one of four leaders at Mission Control who guided the Apollo 13 astronauts back to Earth after an explosion.
- He directed shifts during the first human moon orbit (Apollo 8) and the moon landings of Apollo 12, 14, and 15.
- Windler’s team was called “Maroon Flight,” and he was involved in the early U.S. efforts to beat the Soviet Union in space exploration.
- He helped solve problems during missions and kept operations running without celebration until the astronauts were safe.
- Windler also worked on the three Skylab missions, America’s first space station.
- He described working on Apollo missions as a fast pace where teams had to keep preparing for the next mission immediately.
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