Seymour Liebergot

Seymour Liebergot was a NASA flight controller during the Apollo program. Liebergot was an EECOM controller - he was responsible for the electrical systems onboard the craft. He was part of the team that guided Apollo 13 back to Earth following the explosion which crippled the spacecraft.

He began his career in 1963 with North American Aviation after graduating from California State University. In 1964 he came to NASA. Liebergot was a flight controller on Apollos 8 - 15. He continued as a controller in the Skylab and ASTP missions.

Today, Seymour Liebergot lives in Pearland, Texas with his wife.

In the Apollo 13 movie, Seymour "Sy" Liebergot was played by Clint Howard, the brother of director Ron Howard.

Quotes

"We may have had an instrumentation problem, Flight." Libergot's inital diagnosis of the damage to the ship made on April 13, 1970.