Gene Kranz (in vest, as Apollo 13 safely splashed down) had faith that "as a group, we were smart enough ... to get out of any problem. Associated Press Forty years ago, for several unbearably ...

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 ...

Gene Kranz at his console at NASA’s Mission Control Center on May 30, 1965. ... vest-wearing man in charge who utters a line forever attached to Kranz: “failure is not an option. ...

Veteran NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz and online space memorabilia dealer FarthestReaches.com (FRC) ... Both are holding examples of Kranz's trademark white mission vests.

Marta started sewing waistcoats for Kranz with the Gemini 4 mission, and Kranz began wearing a new vest with each mission. The Smithsonian Institution now has his Apollo 13 vest. Advertisement ...

Known for his flat top brush cut and white vests, Kranz is almost as famous as Apollo astronauts who walked on the moon. The former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and NASA flight director on the ...

If historically there was any one piece of apparel that has come to be associated with a flight director, it was Gene Kranz' vests. As depicted in the 1995 movie "Apollo 13" ...

Gene Kranz News from United Press International. Nearly 35 years after a near-disastrous space mission, Apollo 13 commander Jim Lovell says he has long-since learned to see the mission as a ...

Gene Kranz, Toledo native, aerospace engineer, fighter pilot, an Apollo-era flight director and later director of NASA flight operations, leans on a console near the one where he worked in the ...

After retiring from NASA in 1994, Gene Kranz remembers taking tours through the historic Mission Operations Control Room at Johnson Space Center in Houston. Kranz was the flight director during ...

How Gene Kranz’s Apollo 13 Vest Boosted Morale For His Team. The NASA flight director famously wore a homemade white vest as he averted tragedy during one of Apollo’s most harrowing missions.