Christopher Columbus Kraft Jr., NASA’s first flight director, passed away Monday, two days after the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. NASA announced Kraft’s passing. Those who looked ...

Fifty years later, key leaders, such as Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Flight Director Gene Kranz, remember it as if it were yesterday. KPRC 2's Rose-Ann Aragon sat down with Kranz. Kranz is a former ...

Purdue University graduate and Apollo 11 flight commander Neil Armstrong became the first person to step foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. It was a truly giant leap for mankind, and a seminal moment ...

By Apollo 11, he was the assistant flight controller in Mission Control. While the astronauts became American heroes for their bravery and pioneering spirit, it was the men and women in Mission ...

Coffee cups lie abandoned by blinking monitors. Flight director Gene Kranz is putting his faith in 26-year-old Steve Bales. Bales is Apollo 11’s guidance officer (or ‘GUIDO’). He’s ...

As the world reflects on the 50 years since Neil Armstrong took his first steps on the moon, NASA has worked with a team of artisans and craftspeople to painstakingly restore the Johnson Space Centre ...

Firmly set against the historical background of NASA's triumphant Apollo 11 moon landing in ... plays by-the-books NASA flight director Cole Davis who butts heads with Jones's unconventional ...