Legendary flight director Gene Kranz

NASA - NASA TV's This Week @NASA, Week Ending Dec. 21
"Legendary flight director Gene Kranz was honored by NASA with the Ambassador of Exploration Award. Kranz worked on the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs. He was lead flight director during the Apollo 13 mission,

Apollo 13 crew member: "Houston we've had a problem."

...when an explosion aboard the spacecraft threatened the lives of its crew. Spurred by Kranz's warning, "Failure is not an option," the Mission Control team in Houston resolved the crisis and safely returned the astronauts to Earth. Kranz accepted the award, a moon rock encased in Lucite, during a special ceremony at his alma mater, Central Catholic High School in Toledo, Ohio. It will remain on display there. "
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/twan_071221.html

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[geregmable]

mr kranz! fogadja legmélyebb tiszteletem.

[youvebeenthunderstru]

Kranz did not say that line, "failure is not an option". It was invented for the 1995 movie. Kranz did use the line in his autobiography, but did not use it in 1971.

[mo1from1]

Hey I was a little girl and I remenber that my granfather and I goes out in the garden, every night, look et the wintersky (in south america) an prayed for the Lord to the save return of the astronauts.

thank you, for your good job, for you suport and thank you, to be a part of my life. /mô

[mo1from1]

hey gene! hallo mr kranz! I

[collateralcallous]

lucky u r.

i m big fan of him.

[BeautifulNightmareDK]

I'm related to Gene Kranz!!!