Donald Puddy, 67, NASA Flight Director
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Donald R. Puddy, a veteran NASA flight director who supervised Apollo, Skylab, and early space shuttle missions from Mission Control, died Monday in Houston. He was 67.
The Oklahoma native joined NASA’s Johnson Space Center in 1964, becoming the agency’s 10th flight director.
Puddy also supervised the Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975 that brought U.S. and Soviet spacecraft together in orbit and the landing of the first shuttle mission in 1981.