Gene Kranz
Gene Kranz
Eugene Francis "Gene" Kranzis a retired NASA Flight Director and manager. Kranz served as a Flight Director, the successor to NASA founding Flight Director Chris Kraft, during the Gemini and Apollo programs, and is best known for his role in directing the successful Mission Control team efforts to save the crew of Apollo 13, which later became the subject story of a major motion picture of the same name, in which he was portrayed by actor Ed Harris, and serving...
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Date of Birth17 August 1933
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To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort
Faliure is not an option.
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The look on his face was something you see only a few times in your life, ... This horror grips you, becomes almost unimaginable in your ability to live with it. But that is our job, to live with the risk. This is the nature of people who hold lives in their hands.