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=== Mission Control === The flight directors for Apollo 15 were as follows: * [[Gerry Griffin]],<ref name="fd">{{cite web|title=Flight Directors|url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_18-08_Flight_Directors.htm#_ftn1|access-date=December 22, 2018|id=SP-4029|publisher=[[NASA]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226033918/https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_18-08_Flight_Directors.htm#_ftn1|archive-date=December 26, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> Gold team<ref group=ALFJ name=wordeneva /> * [[Milton Windler]],<ref name = "fd" /> Maroon team<ref group=ALFJ name=wordeneva /> * [[Glynn Lunney]],<ref name = "fd" /> Black team<ref group=ALFJ name=jettison /> * [[Gene Kranz]],<ref name = "fd" /> White team<ref group=ALFJ name=waking /> During a mission the [[Flight controller#CAPCOM|capsule communicators]] (CAPCOMs), always fellow astronauts, were the only people who normally would speak to the crew.<ref>{{cite web|title=Apollo Flight Controller 101: Every console explained|first=Lee|last=Hutchinson|access-date=January 5, 2019|url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/apollo-flight-controller-101-every-console-explained/3/|work=Ars Technica|date=October 31, 2012|publisher=Condé Nast|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190106010556/https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/apollo-flight-controller-101-every-console-explained/3/|archive-date=January 6, 2019|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> For Apollo 15, the CAPCOMs were Allen, Brand, [[C. Gordon Fullerton]], Gordon, Henize, [[Edgar D. Mitchell]], Parker, Schmitt and [[Alan B. Shepard]].<ref name=capcoms>{{cite book|chapter-url=https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_18-06_Capsule_Communicators.htm|access-date=September 8, 2018|year= 2005|chapter=Capsule Communicators (Capcoms)|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171226033914/https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4029/Apollo_18-06_Capsule_Communicators.htm|archive-date=December 26, 2017|url-status=live|df=mdy-all|last=Orloff |first=Richard W. |title=Apollo by the Numbers: A Statistical Reference |series=NASA History Series |orig-year= 2000 |publisher=NASA |location=Washington, D.C. |isbn=978-0-16-050631-4 }}</ref>
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