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Article: NASA flight controller brings San Mateo students firsthand account of ill-fated moon mission
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- October 9, 2009
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SAN MATEO -- All was going smoothly until the final hour of Sy
Liebergot's shift.
"Houston, we've had a problem," one of the Apollo 13 astronauts
going to the moon in 1970 told mission control, where Liebergot
worked as a flight controller.
"It was an incredibly tense time," Liebergot, now 73, recalled
Friday during a visit to physics classes at San Mateo High School.
"I could feel the cold chill of panic well up in my throat. I got to
tell you a fleeting thought of getting up and going home did occur
to me. But that was not an option."
Liebergot, who was involved in all of NASA's Apollo lunar
missions, brought a part of space history to life for students with
his firsthand accounts of the ...