{"id":684650,"date":"2021-03-20T14:44:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T18:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=684650"},"modified":"2021-03-20T14:44:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T18:44:53","slug":"glynn-lunney-nasa-flight-director-with-a-key-role-in-saving-apollo-13-dies-at-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=684650","title":{"rendered":"Glynn Lunney, NASA Flight Director With A Key Role In Saving Apollo 13, Dies At 84"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/jsc2015e074325_wide-1dcce1e622be64a3209213b2afcde122da258b0c.jpg\" alt=\"Glynn Lunney, seen here in 2015, was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom as part of the Apollo 13 mission operations team.\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lunney, who played an integral role in the agency&#8217;s Apollo program, died Friday. He was credited for his quick decision-making during the race to save the lives of the Apollo 13 astronauts.<\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: James Blair\/NASA)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/npr-rss-pixel-13.png\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/03\/20\/979539758\/glynn-lunney-nasa-flight-director-with-a-key-role-in-saving-apollo-13-dies-at-84\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Glynn Lunney, NASA Flight Director With A Key Role In Saving Apollo 13, Dies At 84<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NPR Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lunney, who played an integral role in the agency&#8217;s Apollo program, died Friday. He was credited for his quick decision-making during the race to save the lives of the Apollo&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-684650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=684650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=684650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=684650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=684650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}