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As pad leader for NASA contractors at Cape Canaveral, Fla., and at what became known as the Kennedy Space Centre, the German-born Wendt was in charge of the White Room, the controlled environment at the top of the launch tower where astronauts prepare to enter the spacecraft.
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Günter F. Wendt (August 28, 1924 - May 3, 2010) was a German-American engineer noted for his work in the U.S. manned spaceflight program. An employee of McDonnell Aircraft and later North American Aviation, he was in charge of the spacecraft close-out crews at the launch pads for the entire Mercury and Gemini programs (1961-1966), and the manned phase of the Apollo program (1968-1975) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC). His official title was Pad Leader.
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