Günter F. Wendt (August 28 1923 – May 3 2010) was a German-American engineer noted for his work in the U.S. manned spaceflight program. An employee of McDonnell Aircraft and later North American Aviation he was in charge of the spacecraft close-out crews at the launch pads for the entire Mercury and Gemini programs (1961–1966) and the manned phase of the Apollo program (1968–1975) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC).
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birth date
1923-08-28
birth name
Günter F. Wendt
birth place
Berlin, Germany
citizenship
United States
death date
2010-05-03
death place
Merritt Island Florida
depiction description (caption)
Wendt in the Friendship 7 white room
discipline
Mechanical engineering
employer
Rockwell International, McDonnell Aircraft
significant project
Apollo program, Project Mercury, Skylab, Project Gemini
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