• Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and October 23, 2018, was declared "Gene Kranz Day".[15] During the 2018 To the Moon and Beyond luncheon hosted by...
  • Gene Kranz was the flight director during NASA's Apollo program in the late 60s and early 70s.[2] After a month since the Soviet landing, Apollo 11 kept training until...
  • Eugene (Gene) Kranz is an American former aerospace engineer, fighter pilot and NASA flight director.
  • Community page for NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz.
  • Gemini 9 came home safely and Gene Kranz moved over to Apollo. He missed being a flight director for Gemini 10, 11 and 12 but had plenty of work to do.
  • Eugene “GeneKranz was born August 17th, 1933. He received a bachelor’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering in 1954 from St. Louis University.
  • Chris Kraft with his new flight directors before the Gemini 4 mission. (Clockwise from lower right: Kraft, Gene Kranz, Glynn Lunney and John Hodge.)
  • As director of mission control, Gene Kranz oversaw dozens of NASA spaceflights, including Apollo 11 and 13. And his Catholic faith played a large role.
  • Gene Kranz is an American aerospace engineer, a former fighter pilot, and a retired NASA Flight Director and manager.