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Return-to-Earth specialist Poppy Northcutt during the Apollo program. In the late 1960s, Poppy Northcutt was a return-to-Earth specialist with TRW, working on a contract with NASA on one of the ...

One who heeded his call was Frances “Poppy” Northcutt, a Texas oil patch high-school valedictorian and one-time beauty contestant. She joined more than 300,000 Americans to make Apollo 11 ...

Here’s What it Was Like to Be the Third Meet Poppy Northcutt, the Woman Who Helped Bring the Apollo 11 Astronauts Home Safely They Were at Mission Control During Apollo 11. 50 Years Later ...