Apollo Missions
Aug 25, 2017
Donald Willis
Apollo Missions

Don is a farm boy from rural Ohio. His early inspiration was to fly, which he began at age 16, and he is still an active private pilot.

Don was a career Air Force Officer, and is a Viet Nam veteran. He has 30 years of technical and management experience in the aerospace and communications industries. He was one of the co-founders and the initial corporate strategist for Alliant Techsystems Inc. (NYSE:ATK), and he was Corporate VP strategy and planning for Motorola Networks in US and Asia. Today Don is semi-retired as an independent business consultant, and devotes his free time to charities. His hobbies and interests include flying, fishing, travel, music, history and philosophy.

Don’s topic today is the Apollo program. In 1968 and 1969 he was a NASA flight controller in Mission Control in Houston, on the control team for Apollo Missions 6 through 12, which included the first two lunar landings. Don will tell us about the Apollo missions, and some of the behind the scenes details of the people and the activities that made up this exciting time in our history.