Gene Kranz

Eugene F. "Gene" Kranz (17 August, 1933–) is a retired NASA flight director and manager. Kranz, who served as a flight director during Project Gemini and Project Apollo, is best known for his trademark buzz-cut hairstyle and the wearing of white vests of different styles and materials whenever his "White Team" was on duty during missions, but was best known for his role in saving the crew of Apollo 13.

References

• Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz (ISBN 0743200799)
• Lost Moon by James Lovell (ISBN 0671534645)
• The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space by Gene Cernan
• Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed by Henry S.F. Cooper, Jr.