Eugene Francis Kranz (born August 17, 1933) is an American aerospace engineer who served as NASA's second Chief Flight Director, directing missions of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11.

2024年10月18日 · While the characters in Fly Me to the Moon are fictional, Cole Davis takes inspiration from the real-life flight director for the Apollo 11 mission, Eugene “Gene” Kranz.

Kranz served as NASA’s second Chief Flight Director, directing missions of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, including the historic Apollo 11 lunar landing. He was the lead Flight Director for all odd-numbered Apollo missions, including Apollo 11 and Apollo 13.

Apollo 11 was a spaceflight conducted from July 16 to July 24, 1969 by the United States and launched by NASA. It marked the first time that humans landed on the Moon.

2019年7月18日 · The flight director on duty, Gene Kranz, was in charge of the landing portion of the mission. During the finalb tense moments of the landing, he had the power to make the executive go, no-go decision. "Go for landing," Kranz radioed to Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969. Gene Kranz is shown during the Apollo 11 mission.

2023年8月29日 · Kranz was the longtime flight director for the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo missions, including the Apollo 11 moon landing, and what was deemed the "successful failure" of Apollo 13. Gene Kranz at...

2014年7月15日 · Forty-five years ago this Sunday, Apollo 11 became the first space flight to land men on the moon. At Mission Control in Houston, Gene Kranz was the man in charge. Kranz spent more than three decades working for the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, serving as flight director for both the Gemini and Apollo space programs.

2019年7月22日 · Gene Kranz served as flight director during Apollo 11, leading operations inside Mission Control. He delivered a keynote to a theater of hundreds of guests at Space Center Houston. In his role in July 1969, he made critical decisions during the most dangerous parts of the historic first mission to the surface of the moon.

2019年7月2日 · Flight director Gene Kranz is shown in the NASA control center during a recent interview with ABC's David Kerley. Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing on July 20, NASA has restored the Apollo 11 mission control center to its former glory.

2020年1月7日 · Kranz spent 37 years at NASA, including as flight director for Apollo 11, the first landing on the moon on July 20, 1969, and also for Apollo 13, the third moon landing attempt that spawned the quote, “Houston, we have a problem.”