RIP.
Milt Windler was one of the great pioneers who showed the world what NASA is capable of during both the best and most challenging of days.
— NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman (@NASAAdmin) October 3, 2026
As a Maroon Flight Director, he helped guide Apollo 8 around the Moon, played a critical role in bringing Apollo 13 safely home, and carried… https://t.co/GEfbdoGfxm
With all the focus on Gene Kranz, he and Glynn Lunney (who I knew at Rockwell after he retired from NASA and came to Downey as a vice president, and was a great guy) got short shrift in the movie.
The old guard at NASA of my father’s generation. RIP. And well done sir!
If we’d only had better plans after Project Apollo I feel like we wouldn’t have wasted so much talent. This is why Capitalism works.