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128:20:30 First female flight controller Poppy Northcutt
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Naraht:
https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/?t=128:20:30&ch=19
Here we have Retro Chuck Deiterich doing some planning with his backroom, Retro Support, who I'm almost certain is Poppy Northcutt. She's widely agreed to have been, on Apollo 8, the first female flight controller. (Albeit not in the MOCR itself.)
She can be heard sporadically through the rest of this shift.
Understandably she got a good bit of press coverage. Later on Jay Greene tells Chuck Deiterich that "your assistant is calling you... your TV star...": https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/?t=135:22:51&ch=20
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