Guenter Wendt, German-American engineer (born 1923)

Günter Wendt

Pad leader for Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and Skylab space launches

Günter F. Wendt was a German-born American mechanical engineer noted for his work in the U.S. human 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…