TOLEDO, Ohio — Toledo's own Gene Kranz received high honors Wednesday from the National Air and Space Museum for all he accomplished over his long career in aerospace. The museum presented Kranz with ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — "For Americans, nothing is impossible. Exactly 50 years ago this month, the world watched in awe as Apollo 11 astronauts launched into space with a wake of fire and nerves of steel, and ...

Legendary 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 ...

"The people that lived and worked here, the room talks to them," Kranz said. Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing on July 20, NASA has restored the Apollo 11 mission control center to its ...

HOUSTON — He’s a living American legend, immortalized in Hollywood film. From inside mission control, former NASA flight director Gene Kranz helped land American men on the moon. Fifty years after the ...

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HUNTSVILLE, AL - Gene Kranz, the legendary NASA flight director who controlled the first flights to the moon and helped save Apollo 13, says President Barack Obama "has put our nation on a dangerous ...

Floyd Bennett, President of the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement (RNASA) Foundation of Houston, Texas is pleased to announce that the Foundation’s National Board of Advisors has selected ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.–We can go back to the moon if the right leadership is in place and is well-established by the time we launch, said former NASA flight director Gene Kranz, who spoke about the ...

KPRC 2's Rose-Ann Aragon sat down with Kranz. Kranz is a former aerospace engineer and fighter pilot who made it his mission to work with the young controllers and help make them "steel-hard" ...

Last week, NASA unveiled a restored Apollo Mission Control room at Johnson Space Center. Former Flight Director Gene Kranz, who led the Apollo 11 Moon landing and then gained fame after his role was ...

Ron Howard’s 1995 film Apollo 13 is one of the best movies of the ‘90s, winning two Academy Awards (but not Best Picture) from nine nominations. The fact that it’s based on the real-life doomed moon ...