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Gene Kranz - Wikipedia
Kranz is perhaps best known for his role as lead flight director (nicknamed "White Flight") during NASA's Apollo 13 crewed Moon landing mission. [9] [10] Kranz's team was on duty when part of the Apollo 13 Service Module exploded and they dealt …
How Gene Kranz's Apollo 13 Vest Boosted Morale For His Team
Forty years ago, for several unbearably tense days—April 13 to April 17, 1970—the whole world watched as NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz led a team that worked around the clock to rescue...
Gene Kranz’s Apollo 13 Vest | National Air and Space Museum
Gene Kranz is best known for his stellar performance as flight director for the ill-fated Apollo 13 mission. But Kranz is also known for another thing: his white vests.
Eugene Kranz - National Air and Space Museum
Eugene Kranz played a critical role in many milestones in America's space program, serving as flight director for Apollo 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, and 17. He held a critical role in NASA's Mission Control for 34 years, from Project Mercury through STS-61, the first Hubble servicing mission.
An Interview with Gene Kranz: The Man who Saved Apollo 13 ...
Apr 28, 2022 · Fifty years on from the Apollo 13 mission, Gene Kranz, the iconic former NASA flight director, talked with Digital Trends about why failure was never an option.
Gene Kranz never said ‘failure is not an option’ but his real ...
Aug 29, 2023 · 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.
“We must never fail”: Gene Kranz, Apollo 13, and the future
Apr 18, 2005 · Gene Kranz, the legendary flight controller who uttered the “failure is not an option” line, touched on how he and his fellow flight controllers salvaged a mission and shaped America’s space efforts during a recent talk at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington.
Eugene F. Kranz Oral History - NASA
Apr 28, 1999 · Nonetheless, Apollo 13 was the story of Gene Kranz as much as it was Jim [James A.] Lovell [Jr.] and Fred [W.] Haise [Jr.]. Kranz: Yeah. [Apollo] 13—13 was, again, a mission where the basic maturity of this team continued to—I mean, just spread forth in almost a magnificent fashion.
Vest, Apollo 13, Gene Kranz - National Air and Space Museum
This vest was worn by Eugene F. "Gene" Kranz, NASA Chief of Flight Control Division, during Apollo 13, the third lunar landing attempt. During that flight, mission control worked with Apollo contractors and the flight crew to solve several problems, foregoing a Moon landing but bringing the crew back to Earth safely.
Eugene Kranz - New Mexico Museum of Space History
Eugene Kranz is best known as the lead flight director in the Apollo 13 mission. He was on duty when its Service Module exploded en route to the moon; he, his team, and the astronauts that they helped to bring home safely would all receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.