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Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94

Ars Technica
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Milt Windler, one of the four leaders of Mission Control who in 1970 directed the round-the-clock efforts to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts back to Earth safely.

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