Former NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz Restores Mission Control in Houston

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Gene Kranz stands behind the console at Mission Control in Houston where he worked during the Gemini and Apollo missions. Now Kranz, 85, has completed another undertaking: the reopening of Mission Control at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The room where Kranz directed some of NASA’s most historic missions, heralding U.S. exploration of space, was decommissioned in 1992.

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