Gene Kranz (GK): I was a flight director in Mission ... which I think have helped shaped NASA today: Tough and -- GK: Tough and competent. Boy, you got those words. Well, thank you.

Eugene Francis "Gene" Kranz (born August 17 ... the embodiment of 'NASA tough-and-competent' of the Kranz Dictum. Kranz has been the subject of movies, documentary films, and books and periodical ...