Word: kranz
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...team handled liftoff, translunar insertion and the moon walk, known in space jargon as "Extravehicular Activity," or EVA. Charlesworth admits he liked EVA least of all the mission's activities, "because there just wasn't much I could do." Other flight directors for Apollo 11 were Gene Kranz, 35, who wears a white vest to match his team's color; Milt Windier, 37 (maroon), and Glynn Lunney, 32, whose black team handled the lift-off from the moon and Eagle's rendezvous with Columbia...
Apollo Flight Director Gene Kranz disclaims any superstition, yet regularly dons a white vest during launches, a red vest during long flights, and a flashy gold-brocaded vest immediately after a safe splashdown. At California's Hughes Aircraft Co., any unmanned space probe, like Surveyor, is accompanied in the control room by more crossed fingers, arms and legs than a contortionists' convention. Most space scientists believe in Murphy's Law: "If something can go wrong, it will go wrong, and at the worst possible time." Is there really a Professor Murphy? Answers one California scientist: "Sure, just...
Undismayed, ground controllers under the direction of Flight Director Eugene Kranz, 34, quickly determined that nothing was basically wrong with the descent engine. Bypassing LM's computer, they ordered the descent engine to fire again. This time, and on a subsequent test, it performed perfectly, burning for the entire 26-second period. Had astronauts been aboard the LM, said George Mueller, NASA's director of manned flight, they would have almost certainly recognized the problem and immediately refired the engine before they crashed onto the moon...