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Topic: Cindy "the flower lady" and Apollo MCC
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SCE 2 Aux
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Registered: Oct 2014
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posted 10-04-2014 09:51 PM
   
A bouquet of red roses always arrived at the Mission Control Center as it neared the day of an Apollo launch, with a card that simply stead, "from an admirer." Some came from Canada, Dallas and the eastern United States. The flight controllers referred to her as "the flower lady." Later on they received one card with only the sender's first name Cindy. In Gene Kranz's book he writes, "We placed the flowers in a vase on a small table to the right and beneath the operations room's ten-by-ten-foot TV screen. This was the area we normally congregated to celebrate a successful mission. We knew that the TV cameras would pick up the roses sitting there in the background, thus showing our appreciation to the unknown well-wisher." (page 279) Out of curiosity does anyone happen to know who the flower lady really was or can anyone find a picture of the roses? |
YankeeClipper
Member Posts: 617
From: Dublin, Ireland
Registered: Mar 2011
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posted 10-06-2014 09:19 AM
The mysterious lady referred to herself as Cindy Diane and had possible close connections to Montreal Canada and to Pennsylvania, the Keystone State. Her red roses were sent to Mission Control each splashdown day from Apollo 8 to Apollo-Soyuz.NASA Flight Director Gerry Griffin spoke with her on the phone many times and formed the impression she was in her early-30s. Her actions would appear to have started something of a tradition as this NASA article from the Space Shuttle era shows. | |
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