Lunney, Glynn S.

found: IMDb, Nov. 13, 2017(Glynn Lunney; b. November 27, 1936 in Old Forge, Pennsylvania, USA; flight director at NASA's Johnson Space Center)

found: Washington post WWW site, viewed March 24, 2021(in obituary dated March 23, 2021: Glynn Lunney; Glynn S. Lunney, one of NASA's first flight directors, died March 19 at his home in Clear Lake, Tex. He was 84. In 1968, he became the chief of NASA's flight director's office, responsible for supervising other flight directors and training the many flight controllers and engineers who worked at what is now the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Glynn Stephen Lunney was born Nov. 27, 1936, in Old Forge, Pa. After two years at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, Mr. Lunney transferred to the University of Detroit (now the University of Detroit Mercy), where he studied engineering and took part in a cooperative training program with a forerunner of NASA. He joined the space agency after his graduation in 1958. Mr. Lunney was a flight director for several Gemini missions before working on the Apollo program. He later worked on the Skylab and space shuttle projects before leaving NASA in 1985. He worked in the space programs of Rockwell International and United Space Alliance until retiring in 1998)