NASA Legend Dale Myers Dies at 93; Helped Save Apollo 13, Times of San Diego
“Dale Myers, a famed NASA administrator who helped save the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission and resurrect the space shuttle program after the 1986 Challenger disaster, has died at his retirement home in La Costa. Myers was 93 when he died May 19 at La Costa Glen, his home for 10 years. But he had lived intermittently in Leucadia since 1962, where he had a vacation home, said Janet Westling of San Marcos, one of his two daughters. “He loved being independent,” Westling told Times of San Diego. “He didn’t stop driving, and was very happy and alive to the day he died. Friends of his say, ‘We all want to go that way.'”
Dale Dehaven Myers
Perhaps someday someone will make a website to honor these folks so future generations never forget.
I found his lecture on MIT open courseware in 2005 on development of the Space Shuttle program in early 1970s quite interesting. Dale said back then he and others were faced with a strong possibility that human spaceflight for United States could have ended with Skylab. https://www.youtube.com/wat…
Dale graciously contributed to the Science Channel series “Moon Machines”, specifically to the episode on the Command Module. It’s worth a watch.
There are also two JSC Oral History project interviews and a CV available at: http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/his…
We owe him a tremendous debt.
I was just reading about Dale (among many others) in The Space Shuttle Decision ( http://history.nasa.gov/SP-… ).
I saw Dale in the Moon Machines docs. He was great in those and they are endlessly watchable.
Saddened to hear of Dale’s passing. We interviewed this great man for a spotlight series we were putting together during the final funding campaign for our film, ‘Fight for Space’. The interview we conducted with Dale was most likely his last. LLAP sir. Here’s the footage: https://youtu.be/dT90Xevsqow