As 'Apollo 13' turns 30, we talk to legendary NASA flight director Gerry Griffin who helped make the film as realistic as ...

NASA flight director, Gene Kranz, now 91 years old, is seen posing with his lifetime achievement award from the American Astronautical Society at his restored console in Apollo mission control.

“You know that guy in the white vest with the crew cut who famously says, ‘Failure is not an option?’ Well, that’s what I did,” he says. “That guy” was legendary flight director Gene Kranz, whose ...

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 ...

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" ...

A phone call was made to a doctor's office from Gene Hackman's wife, Betsy Arakawa-Hackman's cellphone on Feb. 12, according to Santa Fe sheriffs. Officials previously believed she died Feb. 11.

Other flight directors for Apollo 11 were Gene Kranz, 35, who wears a white vest to match his team’s color; Milt Windier, 37 (maroon), and Glynn Lunney, 32, whose black team handled the lift-off ...

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.

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. ...