(In the film "Apollo 13, " Kranz was played by the actor Ed Harris, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance.) He headed the Tiger Team that had to figure out how to bring the three Apollo 13 astronauts safely back to Earth. Kranz was flight director for both Apollo 11, the mission in which Neil Armstrong fulfilled President Kennedy's pledge, and Apollo 13. Kennedy's commitment to land a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s. With his teammates, he accepted the challenge to carry out President John F. He helped to launch Alan Shepard and John Glenn, then assumed the flight director's role in the Gemini program, which he guided to fruition. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades.
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