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Gene Kranz

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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. He directed the successful efforts by the Mission Control team to save the crew of Apollo 13, and was portrayed in the 1995 film of the same name by actor Ed Harris. He characteristically wore a close-cut flattop hairstyle and the dapper "mission" vests (waistcoats) of different styles and materials made by his wife, Marta Kranz, for his Flight Director missions. He coined the phrase "tough and competent", which became known as the "Kranz Dictum". Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gene Kranz is the 221st most popular engineer (down from 188th in 2019), the 5,301st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,918th in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Gene Kranz ranks 221 out of 389. Before him are Semyon Lavochkin, Charles Renard, André Waterkeyn, Harvey Postlethwaite, Eugen Sänger, and Menno van Coehoorn. After him are Mikhail Koshkin, Robert Mallet, James B. Francis, Johann Georg Halske, Eugène Belgrand, and Anousheh Ansari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Gene Kranz ranks 256. Before him are Vassilis Vassilikos, Haruo Remeliik, Mark Jones, Milena Hübschmannová, Nicolae Rainea, and Ela Bhatt. After him are Elly Ameling, Evaristo de Macedo, Ilya Kabakov, Doyle Brunson, Ivan Passer, and Gloria Foster.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gene Kranz ranks 5,301 out of 20,380. Before him are Martha Jefferson Randolph (1772), Mary Surratt (1823), Alice Coltrane (1937), Robert B. Spencer (1962), Susana Martinez (1959), and Michael Moriarty (1941). After him are James A. Michener (1907), Rose Wilder Lane (1886), David Koresh (1959), Osceola (1804), Henry Paulson (1946), and Joseph A. Walker (1921).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Gene Kranz ranks 17. Before him are Jimmy Doolittle (1896), J. Walter Christie (1865), Kelly Johnson (1910), Joseph Strauss (1870), Eugene Stoner (1922), and Emily Warren Roebling (1843). After him are Seymour Cray (1925), Jon Postel (1943), Charles F. Brush (1849), Ed Heinemann (1908), Ransom E. Olds (1864), and Aron Ralston (1975).

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