George Mueller, center, former NASA associate administrator of Manned Space Flight, died Oct. 12. Mueller, 97, was critical to NASA’s missions to the moon and instrumental in the initiation of the Skylab and space shuttle programs. Here, Mueller is joined in the control room during the Apollo 11 mission by Manned Space Flight Deputy Associate Administrator Charles W. Mathews, left; NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Director Wernher von Braun, second from left; and Apollo Program Director Samuel C. Phillips, right. The NASA History Program documents and preserves NASA’s remarkable history through a variety of products — photos, press kits, press releases, mission transcripts and administrators’ speeches. For more pictures like this one and to connect to NASA’s history, visit the History Program’s Web page.