January 2005
Toward a New Vision of Manned Spaceflight
President Bush wants to give NASA a second life. Good.
By Mark Williams
From May 1961, when Alan Shepard became the first American in space, Gene Kranz was the man to have running Mission Control. He was flight director for Apollo 11's Mare Tranquillitatis touchdown in 1969 and Apollo 13's aborted mission in 1970 (and he was played by the actor Ed Harris in the 1995 movie Apollo 13).
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