Eugene 'Gene' Francis Kranz (born 1933), NASA Flight Director, at his control room desk during a simulation prior to the Gemini-Titan 4 mission. Kranz

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Eugene 'Gene' Francis Kranz (born 1933), NASA Flight Director, at his control room desk during a simulation prior to the Gemini-Titan 4 mission. Kranz is sitting at the Flight Director console in Houston's Mission Control Center on the Manned Spacecraft Center (later the Johnson Space Center), Houston, Texas, USA. Gemini-Titan 4 was the first mission to be at least partially controlled from the Houston site. Kranz was a NASA Flight Director from 1965 to 1972, working on the Gemini and Apollo programs. He was later Deputy Director (1974) and Director (1983) of NASA Mission Operations. Photographed in April 1965.

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