SRE2AUX: How Flight Controllers Were the First SREs

In the beginning, there were flight controllers. These were a strange breed. In the early days of the US Manned Space Program, most American households, regardless of class or race, knew the names of the astronauts. John Glen, Alan Shepard, Neil Armstrong. The manned space program was a unifying force of national pride.

But no one knew the names of the anonymous men and later, women, who got the astronauts to orbit, to the moon, and most importantly, got them back to earth. The Apollo 13 mission changed all that, not because it was successful, but because it was a successful failure; no one died. 

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