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Jean kranz had a prolific career as a nasa flight and Missions Operation director. He was acting flight director when the apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon, and as lead flight director of the apollo 13 mission, he had a significant role in guiding three astronauts back to earth after an explosion on the spacecraft. This is part one of a oral history interview landing flight director, werent you. You were in charge of that. You took part in the whole thing. lets go over apollo n unidentified speaker 11. A big project. Theres many things that stand out. A person says where were you when . ...

The First Mission where in apollo now, where we had been flight directors on gemini, we were coming back together again. So you had probably the three most experienced people at the counsel, and it was a question of who was going to get to do what. Lonnie had been to the moon a couple times. Charlesworth had launched saturns. I had the lunar module experience. You had no driver that said this person ought to be doing this phase of the mission. I was division chief at that time and kraft had been really on top of us to nail down who is going to do what until finally after the apollo 9 mission w...

11, and what a thing to go back over, thats a big project. The theres many things that stand out, a person says, where were you when . I had sure had an awful lot of great breaks in my life, i mean, whether they be in college, whether they be in flying airplanes, but one of the ones that i remember that is related to apollo 11, in a very direct fashion was the day that i got the assignment to do the landing phase. Cliff charlesworth was the lead flight director and one of the responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which flight director is going to cover which phase of the ...

It will be chilly. Right around the bit will be 60 degrees mostly sunday. Justin low 70s in the inland area. But now were getting first reports of injury crash as you worked well 880. Right now they have always temporary block. Chp and parkers are on the scene. This is northbound 880. Because it right on the map. That purple indicates those cars and traveling on that portion of the freeway. Expect delays there. Again, not hundred 80 at 23rd. Always bought for injury crash. We have some new video coming in from the border of turkey and syria. It continues to continue despite a five day ceasefir...

In the financial district, it was like a scene out of a movie. People literally in the street, holding one another, people physically shaking, crying and some places. Kpix 5 news starts right now with a look back at the loma prieta earthquake that was 30 years ago tonight. Good evening, im ken bastida. Im veronica de la cruz. The quake killed 60 people and injured hundreds more. It caused damage to property in private homes and businesses. All of these years later, Wilson Walker spoke with people who remember it like it was yesterday. Day to ask that timeless question, where the oakland as me ...