page_title: Seymour Liebergot
hierarchical_section_title: Seymour Liebergot
caption_attribution_description: English: NASA flight controller Seymour Liebergot is standing second from left in this picture. Libergot was one of the flight controllers who helped guide Apollo 13 back to Earth after the explosion in the cryo-tanks. Original caption: "Debbie Nguyen taps into the memories of Seymour Liebergot and John W. Jurgensen, two Apollo flight controllers"
context_page_description: Seymour "Sy" Abraham Liebergot is a retired NASA flight controller, serving during the Apollo program. Liebergot was an EECOM controller and was responsible for the electrical and environmental systems on board the Command Module. In 1970, 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, Los Angeles. In 1964, he came to NASA. Liebergot was a Deputy Flight Director on Apollo 4, then an EECOM flight controller on Apollo 8–15. On Apollo 17, he served as CSSB SPAN Support. He continued as a controller in the Skylab and ASTP missions.
context_section_description: Seymour "Sy" Abraham Liebergot (born February 15, 1936 in Camden, New Jersey) is a retired NASA flight controller, serving during the Apollo program.  Liebergot was an EECOM controller and was responsible for the electrical and environmental systems on board the Command Module.  In 1970, 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, Los Angeles.  In 1964, he came to NASA.  Liebergot was a Deputy Flight Director on Apollo 4, then an EECOM flight controller on Apollo 8–15. On Apollo 17, he served as CSSB SPAN (SPacecraft ANalysis room) Support. He continued as a controller in the Skylab and ASTP missions.
caption: Seymour Liebergot, in the blue shirt, in the former Mission Operations Control Room talking with Public Affairs Specialist Debbie Nguyen in the red shirt
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