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"I vunder vere Gunther Wendt?" RIP
Gunther Wendt, the tower chief and the last man each and every Apollo mission saw before launch has died. 1924-2010.
I don't know for sure if Jim Lovell originated the line or whether it was just so obvious that it floated out from among the astronauts spontaneously.
Rob
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Apollo 13, 1995, played by Endre Hules ? While being fit into his space suit, astronaut Jim Lovell (played by Tom Hanks) chats with Wendt, playfully mocking and repeating Eisele's pun from Apollo 7: "I vonder vere Guenter Vendt?"
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/wendtobit.html
The movie "Apollo 13" made famous the line about the pad leader when Tom Hanks, as astronaut Jim Lovell, asked, "I wonder where Guenter Wendt?"
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I simply pointed out that the original post had a historical inaccuracy in it.
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