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Aug 17, 1933 Toledo, Ohio, United States 90 years old
NASA Flight Director and manager
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About Gene Kranz
- Eugene Francis Kranz (born August 17, 1933) is an American aerospace engineer, a former fighter pilot, and a retired NASA Flight Director and manager.
- Kranz served as NASA's second Chief Flight Director, directing missions of the Gemini and Apollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11.
- He is best known for directing the successful efforts by the Mission Control team to save the crew of Apollo 13, and was later portrayed in the major motion picture of the same name by actor Ed Harris.
- He is also noted for his close-cut flattop hairstyle and the dapper "mission" vests (waistcoats) of different styles and materials made by his wife, Marta Kranz, for his Flight Director missions. A personal friend of the American astronauts of his time, Kranz remains a prominent and colorful figure in the history of U.S.
- manned space exploration, the embodiment of "NASA tough-and-competent" of the Kranz Dictum.
- Kranz has been the subject of movies, documentary films, and books and periodical articles.
- Kranz is a recipient of a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
- In a 2010 Space Foundation survey, Kranz was ranked as the #2 most popular space hero.
