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Bemerkungen: Indescard von den drei NASA-Legenden Milton Windler, Gerry Griffin und Gene Kranz signiert jeweils mit eigenhändigem Zusatz "Gold Flight" bzsw. "Maroon Flight Apollo-Skylab" bzw. "White Flight".- /// Milton "Milt" Windler (born January 10, 1932 in Hampton, Virginia) is a retired NASA Flight Director. He is best known for his work as one of the four flight directors of Apollo 13 Mission Operations Team, all of whom were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Richard M. Nixon for their work in guiding the crippled spacecraft safely back to Earth. Previously a jet fighter pilot, he began working at NASA in 1959 during Project Mercury. Originally working in the recovery division, he was promoted to flight director by Chris Kraft to support Eugene Kranz, who had acquired additional responsibilities in the months following the Apollo 1 fire.[2] Windler also served as flight director for Apollo 8, Apollo 10, Apollo 11, Apollo 14, Apollo 15, and all three Skylab missions.[3] Following the conclusion of the Apollo Program, Windler worked in the Space Shuttle Project Office on Remote Manipulator Systems Operations until 1978. He is a recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal.[4] /// Eugene Francis ?Gene? Kranz (* 17. August 1933 in Toledo, Ohio, Vereinigte Staaten) ist ein ehemaliger NASA-Flugdirektor während der Gemini- und Apollo-Programme. Kranz, der einen deutschen Großvater hatte, verlor seinen Vater bereits im Alter von sieben Jahren. Nach seiner schulischen Ausbildung auf dem Parks College in St. Louis, Missouri, die er 1954 mit dem Bachelor als Flugingenieur abschloss, ging er zur US Air Force. Dort machte er seine Pilotenausbildung, leistete Dienst in Korea und gelangte bis in den Rang eines Captain. In Zusammenarbeit mit der McDonnell Aircraft Corporation führte die Air Force 1955 bis 1958 Testflüge durch. Gene Kranz kam auf diesem Weg zur Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, wo diese Kooperation für Raketentestflüge bis 1960 fortgesetzt wurde. 1960 unterzeichnete Gene Kranz einen Vertrag mit der NASA. Ab sofort gehörte er der Flugkontrolle im Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, an. Er stieg zum stellvertretenden Direktor der Flugkontrolle für das Mercury-Programm auf und wurde 1964 der Flugdirektor für das Gemini-Programm in der neuen Flugleitzentrale in Houston. Die verschiedenen Schichten in der Flugleitung wurden mit Farben bezeichnet, und Kranz leitete das ?weiße Team?. Charakteristisch für ihn war, dass er während der Flugleitung stets Westen trug, die seine Frau für ihn nähte. 1968 wurde ihm die komplette Flugkontrolldivision unterstellt und er wurde Flugdirektor für das Apollo-Programm. Im April 1970 war Kranz während der Apollo-13-Mission maßgeblich an der Rettung der drei Astronauten Jim Lovell, Jack Swigert und Fred Haise beteiligt. Auch die danach stattfindenden Skylab-Flüge unterstanden seiner Kontrolle. Von 1974 bis 1983 war Kranz stellvertretender Flugdirektor für die STS-Missionen und von 1983 bis 1994 deren Direktor. Nach Abschluss des Shuttle-Fluges STS-61 ging Kranz in den Ruhestand. Er wurde für seine Verdienste mit der Presidential Medal of Freedom ausgezeichnet.[1] Kranz ist verheiratet und hat sechs Kinder.[2] Kranz wird im Film Apollo 13 von Ed Harris und in Apollo 11 von Matt Frewer verkörpert. Zudem wird Kranz in der TV-Serie For All Mankind von Eric Ladin verkörpert. /// Gerald D. "Gerry" Griffin (born December 25, 1934 in Athens, Texas) is an American aeronautical engineer and former NASA official, who served as a flight director during the Apollo program and director of Johnson Space Center, succeeding Chris Kraft in 1982. When Griffin was nine years old his family moved to Fort Worth, Texas. Upon graduation from Texas A&M he was commissioned as an officer in the United States Air Force. He served four years on active duty, first in flight training, then flying as a weapon systems officer in jet fighter-interceptors. In 1960 Griffin left active duty and began his space career as a systems engineer/flight controller at the USAF Satellite Test Center in Sunnyvale, California. In 1964 Griffin joined NASA in Houston as a flight controller in Mission Control, specializing in guidance, navigation and control systems during Project Gemini. In 1968 he was named a Mission Control flight director and served in that role for all of the Apollo Program manned missions, including all nine manned missions out to the Moon, six of which included lunar landings. Griffin's "Gold" team conducted half of the lunar landings made during Apollo: Apollos 14, 16, and 17. His team was scheduled to conduct the landing of Apollo 13, but when the landing was cancelled as a result of the oxygen tank explosion, his team played a key role in the safe return of the astronauts. After the Apollo Program was completed Griffin served in other roles at NASA, first in multiple positions at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., then as the deputy director of the Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center in California, then as deputy director of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In 1982 he returned to Houston as director of the Johnson Space Center. After taking early retirement from NASA in 1986 Griffin became a senior executive with several non-space, as well as space-related, companies and organizations in the private sector. Today Griffin remains active in several businesses at the senior level. He also is a technical and management consultant for a broad range of clients. Because of his real life role as a flight director during the troubled flight of Apollo 13 Griffin was a technical advisor for the film Apollo 13. Later he was a technical advisor for and an actor in the movies Contact and Deep Impact . Most recently Griffin was the technical advisor for the movie Apollo 18. Griffin is a member of the Screen Actors Guild. In the HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, he was played by actor David Clyde Carr. Griffin is an active general aviation pilot and aircraft owner, holding a commercial license with an instrument rating for single engine aircraft, multi-engine aircraft and helicopters /// Autogramm Autograph signiert signed signee /// Standort Wimregal PKis-Box87-U006