Glynn S. Lunney Papers

Glynn S. Lunney Papers

The Glynn S. Lunney Papers is composed of correspondence, telegrams, photographs, negatives, personnel records, resumes, notebooks, flight plans, binders, scrapbooks, papers, transcripts, press materials, booklets, proclamations, awards, certificates, agendas, event programs, invitations, flyers, yearbooks, newsletters, magazines, newspaper articles, ephemera, audio reel tapes, artifacts, and miscellaneous materials, documenting the personal and professional life of NASA engineer, flight director, and program manager Glynn S. Lunney of Old Forge, Pennsylvania, and Houston, Texas. The collection spans from his high school years in Pennsylvania, through post-retirement life. The materials date from the 1940s through 2013, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1960 to 1990.

One of the largest sets of materials in the collection is photographs. The collection contains over 1,700 original photographs documenting all aspects of Glynn Lunney’s life, work, and some parts of his family’s lives between the 1940s through the 2010s. The greatest strength of the photographs is their documentation of his role with various NASA missions at NASA Johnson Space Center from 1965 to 1984. The largest set of photographs in the entire collection documents the operation of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project from October 1970 through the program’s conclusion in 1975 between the United States and Russia (then the Soviet Union). Some of the most unique and most original photographs in the collection relate to ASTP. There are photographs from every meeting and training held both in Houston, Texas, and Moscow, Russia, between the USSR-US Joint ASTP Working Group.

Another important set of materials included in the papers is correspondence, which Lunney curated to maintain a specific set representative of the different types of people and purposes for which people corresponded with him. There are unique letters from NASA Johnson Space Center Director Christopher C. Kraft Jr., retired Apollo 7 astronaut Walter Cunningham, and astronaut and NASA official Deke Slayton.

What follows are selections of materials documenting all aspects of Glynn Lunney’s life from childhood through retirement. The materials are arranged in chronological order. The biography featured in this exhibit was researched and written by Matthew M. Peek, Associate Director of the University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives and Special Collections, for the biographical note within the finding aid for the Glynn S. Lunney Papers (HSF-90). All of the information was taken from a variety of sources, some of which had different details about aspects of Glynn Lunney’s life.

Glynn S. Lunney

Glynn S. Lunney Papers, HSF-90, University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives and Special Collections, Alfred R. Neumann Library, 2700 Bay Area Blvd., Houston, TX 77058-1002

UHCL Archives and Special Collections

University of Houston-Clear Lake Archives and Special Collections, Houston, TX

HSF-90