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Topic: Hershel Perkins, Apollo MCC (1936-2020)
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Robert Pearlman
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posted 12-24-2020 08:17 AM
   
Hershel Perkins, who worked in Apollo Mission Control, died on Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020, according to Apollo flight controller Sy Liebergot. Perkins was 84. In a booklet compiled in 1989 for the flight operations team reunion for the 20th anniversary of the first moon landing, Perkins described his role as follows: I was supporting in the LM COM/INST SSR [Lunar Module Communications/Instrumentation Staff Support Room] during Apollo 11. Now I work for RSOC [Rockwell Space Operations Company] supporting Flight Crew Operations. More about Perkins' career from his obituary: In 1961 Hershel began his career with the U.S. Space Program assigned to New Boston Tracking Station and the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, where he served as a Project Gemini Spacecraft Systems Engineer. As a Philco contractor, he supported Mission Control in the Gemini, Apollo, Skylab, Apollo-Soyuz and Space Shuttle programs. Hershel’s final assignment with NASA was as a supervisor in the Astronaut Office, which managed the administrative aspects of the astronaut program. |
Panther494
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