Glynn Lunney, NASA flight director who saved Apollo 13 crew, dies at 84

Glynn Lunney, a respected NASA veteran who helped save the crew of the Apollo 13 mission in 1970, has died at age 84. NBC’s Hallie Jackson remembers a life well lived.

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