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Apollo 14 Launch Team
Photo of rows D and C Click to enlarge
Row D, left side;
1. Art Sawyer
2. Nels Roseland
3. Frank Bryan
4. Roy Lealman
5. Ed Fannin
6. Don Oswald
7. Bill Holmes, on Bill’s right, John Cully
Row C, right side with white jackets;
9. Jones A. Gaillard
10. Charles H. Hood
11. Ken Mecham
14. Hayward Ducharme
15. Bob Bruner
16. Edd Witt
Firing Room Layout click to enlarge
Apollo 14 Firing room Area A staffing list in part from the Spaceport News
Row A
1. Isom A. Rigell, Chief Engineer, KSC Launch Vehicle Operations
2. Dr. Hans F. Gruene, Director, KSC Launch Vehicle Operations
3. Richard G. Smith, MSFC Saturn V Program Manager
4. Graydon F. Corn, Chief, Propellants Branch, Launch Vehicle Operations
5. Rocco A. Petrone, Apollo Program Director
6. Walt Kapryan, KSC Launch Director
7. Dr. Kurt Debus, Director, KSC
8. Dr Robert Gray, Deputy Director of KSC Launch Operations
9. John J Williams, Director, KSC Spacecraft Operations
10. Colonel James McDivitt, MSC Apollo Program Manager
11. John (Jack) W. King, KSC Public Affairs
Row B
1. Eugene M. Sestille, Chief Launch Vehicle Test Conductor for Apollo 14
2. Norman M. Carlson, Launch Vehicle Test Conductor
3. John R. Copeland, Launch Vehicle Test Conductor
4. Richard H. Thornburg, Space Vehicle Test Supervisor
5. Charles F. Henschel, Chief Space Vehicle Test Supervisor for Apollo 14
6. Paul C. Donnelly, Associate Director of Launch Operations, serving as Launch Operations Manager
7. Robert E. Moser, head of the Test Planning Office, Launch Operations Directorate
8. John Heard, Manager for the Command Service Module
9. John Beeson, Manager for the Lunar Module
10. David Dysart, North American Rockwell, Assistant Manager for the Command Service Module
11. Charles Bartola, Grumman, Assistant Manager for the Lunar Module
12. Dennis A. Hajduk, Boeing, Space Vehicle Test Engineer
Row C, Names and titles from source 1, Order from source 3 and 4
1. Jones A. Gaillard, Boeing Senior Test Conductor
2. Billy R. Melton, Boeing, Test Conductor
3. Donald L. Baker, Boeing Test Conductor Engineer
4. Charles H. Hood, Test Conductor Engineer
5. John Perry, North American Rockwell, Test Conductor, second stage
6. Kay L. Mecham, North American Rockwell, Assistant Test Conductor
7. James R. Schofield, McDonnell Douglas Test Conductor, third stage
8. John T. Webb, McDonnell Douglas Assistant Test Conductor
9. Edd C. Witt, IBM Complex Manager
10. William R. Rezanka, IBM Test Conductor, Instrument Unit
11. Hayward Ducharme, IBM Operations Engineer
12. Joseph F. Battaglia, Spacecraft LC-39 Operations Branch
13. Harold Sims, Spacecraft Acceptance Checkout Equipment Branch
14. Kenneth W. Smith, Spacecraft Acceptance Checkout Equipment Branch
15. Donald K. Slayton, Director of Flight Crew Operations, Astronaut Communicator
16. Fred W. Haise, Jr., Lunar Module Pilot on the Apollo 13 mission, Astronaut Communicator
17. Dr. Alan C. Harter, KSC’s Chief of Medical Services
18. Dr. John T. Teegan, Launch Site Medical Operations Branch, MSC
19. Dr. Charles A. Berry, Director of Medical Research and Operations, MSC
Row D
Table, Kelly Fiorentino and John Conaway, Instrumentation
0. David C. Moja, Electrical Networks (sat on end of row, no console)
Also Bill Haynes, Art Sawyer, Don Kelly, Electrical Networks
1. Nels Roseland, Electrical Networks
2. Frank G. Bryan, Engineering Staff Chief
3. Roy Lealman, Electrical G&C Systems Chief
4. Lionel E. Fannin, Mechanical and Propulsion Systems Chief
5. Marion D. Edwards, Instrumentation Chief
6. Donald R. Oswald, Quality Assurance Chief
7. David F. Jaehne, Engineering, S-1C Networks
8. William C. Holmes. Boeing Launch Operations Site Manager
9. John J. Cully, Boeing Saturn V Program Manager
10. Albert C. Martin, NAR, Operations Manager, second stage
11. Harold Eaton Jr., McDonnell Douglas Saturn/Apollo Program Director
12. George M. Smith, IBM, Test Operations Manager
13. Floyd M. Falkenberry, Bendix Systems Safety
14. Arthur J. Williams, Bendix Systems Safety
15. Sherman J. Evans, KSC Security and Safety Office
16. Steve W. Tatham, KSC Security and Safety Office
17. Robert E. Woods, KSC Safety Office
18. Lt. R. P. Wellborn, Range Safety of the Air Force Eastern Test Range
19. Max G. Taylor, Chief Instrumentation Controller, Technical Support Directorate
20. Joseph R. Smith, alternate Instrumentation Controller
21. Joseph N. Barfus, Chief Test Support Controller
22. Richard M. Gramling, Chief Test Support Manager
23. Jansen R. Davenport, Communications Controller
24. Robert G. Young, Display Coordinator
25. Raymond L. Clark, Director, Technical Support Directorate
My father was in the firing room for Apollo 14. I have his firing room pass but don’t see him listed here. I thinh he was the test conductor, John H. Lundy. If you could clarify this I would appreciate it. Badge # is 242
David F Jaehne was Engineering, S-1C Networks, not tech asst QC.