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A family spokesman says McLeaish died Tuesday in a San Antonio nursing home after a long illness. He'd lived in San Antonio since 1999. A graveside service is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon at the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio. The Houston-born, Weslaco-reared McLeaish was working at Houston's Ellington Air Force Base when NASA recruited him in 1962. He became the chief of public information at what was then the NASA Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston in 1968 and remained with NASA until 1984. He was the Mission Control commentator and provided news briefings on space flight events from the Gemini program through the early shuttle flights. As part of his job, he spent several weeks in quarantine with the crew of the Apollo Eleven mission that made the first landing on the moon. Years later, he said he even tasted a bit of moon dust. He called it "kind of tasteless." Survivors include his wife, two sons, a daughter, two granddaughters and a brother.
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