Inside Mission Control with Gene Kranz

Flight director and NASA legen Gene kranz reflects on the historic Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

[VisitorEarth]

I had a very small part in the Space Shuttle program (I was an engineering development technician), and I don't remember anyone of the stature of Mr Kranz. If we had someone of his level of excellence running NASA now, would already be on Mars.

[paulellis]

Am reading his book "Failure is not an option" at the moment.Great read!!

[sandynathan]

"I'm still here, come and get me" Gene Kranz is an absolute Legend

[musicmanfelipe]

I got to see the refurbished Mission Control room in Houston the same year this video was made, just in time for the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11. They play a full re-enactment of the landing for visitors, with the radio transmissions on the speakers and the telemetry on the screens. It is a beautiful sight.

[edkuijper]

Gene Kranz is very inspiring. "Leaders have integrity, are teachers, are teambuilders, when there is trouble leaders are out front".
Such leaders with ''failure is not an option'' in mind, building on excellence of teammembers which trust each other, and will step forward as leader
when it is necessary. Tough and competent, we need now worldwide such a leader an his team to get out of this Covid-19 crisis !!!!

[jaycoboliveri]

And people are out there who think we never did this.

[leslielousma]

Wow! So surreal to see my father in this and many other footage. I was six years old and really don’t remember watching it; just remember he ways always “at work”🥰

[marlonisaac]

Damn it's sad to see him getting old😢. This should have way more views but proves no one is that interested in space travel anymore.

[SweetBearCub]

The interviewer pointed out a very interesting point that so many people now tend to overlook. Even though Kranz was only 35 at the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing, the flight controllers called him "Grandpa" because he was very old as compared to them. So many of the flight controllers were there practically fresh out of college, so maybe 22 years old, or close to it. We look back at that time and forget just how truly young so many of those people were!

[BedsitBob]

To my mind, Gene Kratz *is* the man who saved Apollo 13.

[jaycoboliveri]

I wish America would do something like this again in my lifetime.

[BedsitBob]

All these years later, he still fills up, when he's describing seeing the Apollo 13 capsule splashdown.

[glenngoodrich]

You are the best of the best Flight Director Kranz!

[markyounger]

Gene Krantz and Buzz Aldrin are the two people on mt bucket list. I did art work of Apollo 11 and I need their signatures.

[robertpsotka]

I'm not the kind of person that has heroes, but Gene Kranz is my hero

[allgood]

Thanks for this... I saw Buzz Aldrin speak for an hour here in NZ👍🇳🇿

[John-ctzs]

I can't believe the other guys in Mission Control called 35 year old Gene Krantz "grandpa". Someone born in 1969 today would be about 53. How old were those kids back then? A bunch of new college 21 or 22 year old engineering grads? I would have thought you needed a few years experience before you worked on the moon landing.

[tjjr]

Gene Kranz is my hometown hero. We renamed Toledo Express Airport in his honor.

[michaelbodine]

Certainly, without CO2 scrubber, they were not returning.
NO heat, depleted O2, 'mission accomplished;'

[ClintThomsen]

“When I come into this room, I hear things…”

Why did the cut that off? I want to know what he means by this.