Robert D. Legler

(1927- ) born near Fullerton, Nance County, lived at Belgrade and Schuyler. Electronics engineer, served as flight control engineer with NASA Manned Spacecraft Center at Houston, Texas from 1965 to 1998 on the Gemini, Apollo, Apollo-Soyuz, Skylab, Space Shuttle, and Space International Station programs; was instrumental as member of flight control team in April 1970 in successful return of Apollo 13 astronauts by solving the battery recharge problem; previously was radio communication specialist for U.S. Merchant Marines and United Nations Palestine Mission and communications engineer for Philco Corporation; member of NASA flight control team awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom on April 18, 1970. Consult Schuyler /NE/ Sun, September 13, 1984, p. 1 and Jim Lovell, Apollo 13 (Pocket Books, 1994) and Lincoln Journal Star, August 11, 1997, pp. A-1, A-5.

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