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Manfred "Dutch" von Ehrenfried was a NASA Flight Controller on Mercury, Gemini and Apollo and worked in both the Flight Control and Flight Dynamics Branches. Between missions he was an Apollo Pressure Suit Test Subject which required tests in the centrifuge, vacuum chamber and Zero G aircraft. He tested one of Neil Armstrong's suits in the vacuum chamber to 400,000 feet and was fitted with his own Apollo A7LB suit. This experience qualified him as the first Mission Manager and crew member in the NASA RB-57F aircraft. He also worked with scientists and engineers on the Apollo Lunar Science Experiment packages and the Skylab Earth Resources Experiment Package.Later, as a contractor, von Ehrenfried worked for the Space Station Task Force in Washington, DC from 1982-1992, and later consulted with the FAS Aviation Safety Office for a year. He is the author of "Stratonauts" (Springer, 2013) and "The Birth of NASA" (Springer, 2016).