George P. Chandler
From The Space Library
George P. Chandler, Jr., Apollo Mission Engineer, Apollo Operations Directorate, OMSF, Hq., was born in Knoxville, Tenn. Sept. 6, 1935. He attended grammar and high schools in that city was graduated from the University of Tennessee with a B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1957. He received an army ROTC commission and served on active duty 30 months in the Ordnance Corps as a missile maintenance engineer in Germany. From 1960 until 1965 he was associated with Philco Corp. in Germany and in Houston, Texas. He joined the NASA Office of Manned Space Flight in Washington in 1965 and served in the Gemini and Apollo Applications operations offices before assuming his position as Apollo 11 Mission Engineer in 1967. Chandler was also the mission engineer for Apollos 9 and 10.
