Gerald D. Griffin

Um, so we have a wide range, like you said, of people who are gonna be speaking and presenting at this event.

You know, from the, from the early days of NASA, you've got, um, you know, Bill Moon, uh, Gerry Griffin.

Um, both of those guys were in, uh, Mission Control.

And, uh, well, we're gonna have, uh, people like, uh, Jeremy, uh, Thorpe is gonna be there, uh, Dutch van Ehrenfried is gonna be there, and many more from that time period.

And, um, uh, there were two things that happened on it.

The first was that, that, uh, that, uh, Gerry Griffin was the flight director, and, um, and his EECOM, or his Eagle called up and said, uh, uh, "Flight, take SCE to AUX," and Gerry had absolutely no idea what that meant, and neither did the commander, Pete Conrad.

But the, but the CapCom read it up, and Al Bean knew that, knew that switch, and he took it to AUX, and all the data came back.

And it was a real example of the kind of trust that you develop with years and thousands of hours of working together with people, that, that Gerry had no idea what that call meant, but it was important, so he did it.

Apollo 13 was supposed to be the third crewed moon landing.

Instead, Windler and gold flight director Gerry Griffin polled the flight controllers in the room.

They developed three options for when, where, and how long to fire the lunar module's engines.

The goal was to put the spacecraft on a path back to Earth.