Kranz was not claiming that failure was never an option; he was insisting that his team must not fail when it mattered most.

When the SpaceX Starship exploded over the Atlantic Ocean last week, I immediately thought of Elon Musk’s observation: “If ...

Gene Kranz (GK): I was a flight director in Mission ... RA: You also taught them two values which I think have helped shaped NASA today: Tough and -- GK: Tough and competent.

Christopher Kraft and Eugene Kranz have been named to the list of NASA's first generation of explorers honored as Ambassadors of Exploration. A space documentary based on Gene Kranz's best-selling ...