FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 5, 2007
www.jcu.edu
Contact: Tonya Strong-Charles
                 216.397.1958
                     tstrong@jcu.edu

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John Carroll University hosts
Sy Liebergot,
The NASA Mission Control Expert Who Helped Save
“Apollo 13”

Thursday, September 13
7:30 p.m.
Dolan Center for Science and Technology
Donahue Auditorium
This event is open to the public

Sy Liebergot, former Apollo flight controller, will present a public lecture describing the unfolding failure of the Apollo 13 oxygen tank explosion in
April 1970.

“Houston, we’ve had a problem” are the words that marked the first signs of impending failure that nearly killed three astronauts in space.
The crisis management employed to avert disaster is widely considered to be NASA’s finest hour.
Sy Liebergot was a key flight controller during the ordeal,  and relates the historic details of the explosion.  He is best known for being a member of the team that brought Apollo13 back home.

John Carroll University’s Boler School of Business and College of Arts and Sciences are sponsoring this lecture.

Sy Liebergot became a veteran flight controller, most notably the Lead EECOM (Electrical, Environmental, Consumables) flight controller throughout all Apollo manned missions and an EGIL (Skylab EECOM) for all of the Skylab program missions.

The Apollo program was designed to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. Six of the missions (Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) achieved this goal.

Rick Valente
Executive Director, Information Services
John Carroll University

John Carroll University, located in Cleveland, Ohio, is a liberal arts university grounded in the Jesuit, Catholic tradition.  The university has some 3,100 plus undergraduates and just over 700 graduate students.  The U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 annual college guide ranks John Carroll University among the top 10 master’s-degree granting universities in the Midwest and first in average graduation rate. Originally founded as St. Ignatius College in 1886, the university was renamed in 1923 to honor America’s first Catholic bishop, John Carroll of Maryland.  John Carroll is one of 28 Jesuit colleges and universities located in the United States.

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