A NASA flight director who directed missions across the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs, including Gemini 4 (the first American spacewalk) and the odd-numbered Apollo missions. His White Team set the consumable-conservation plan and course-correction burns that returned the crew of the crippled Apollo 13 safely to Earth in 1970.
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Defining ContributionNASA's second Chief Flight Director; led Mission Control's Apollo 13 rescue as flight director of the White (Tiger) Team, and directed missions from Mercury through the Apollo program, including the Apollo 11 landing. 1 Connections
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Kranz's White Team directed the Apollo 13 rescue.
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His White Team, dubbed the Tiger Team by the press, set the constraints for the consumption of spacecraft consumables (oxygen, electricity, and water) and controlled the three course-correction burns during the trans-Earth trajectory, as well as the power-up procedures that allowed the astronauts to land safely back on Earth in the command module.
2. Gene Kranz (Wikipedia)
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Eugene Francis Kranz (born August 17, 1933) is an American aerospace engineer who served as NASA's second Chief Flight Director, directing missions of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11.
- Gene Kranz, infobox
- Gene Kranz, NASA career section
- Associated With: Apollo 13, Gene Kranz, Apollo 13 section
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Eugene Francis Kranz (born August 17, 1933) is an American aerospace engineer who served as NASA's second Chief Flight Director, directing missions of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11.
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