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Eugene F. Kranz, the legendary NASA flight director who helped guide the Apollo program, says the newest views of the Moon and the Artemis II mission are hitting him on a personal level. In a one-on-one interview with the 13 Action News I-Team, Kranz, now 93 years old, described how the images from the Artemis II crew brought him right back to the era when the U.S. first made lunar history. He compares what NASA can see and do now versus what tools astronauts had during the Apollo area.

Gene Kranz was present at the birth of America’s manned space program and remained a legendary figure in NASA history for three decades. As a Flight Director in Mission Control, Kranz witnessed the making of history firsthand -- from the early Mercury program to the final Apollo mission and beyond. In this video, we explore how Kranz endured the disastrous early years of the Space Race, when rocket failures left the United States trailing behind the Soviet Union. Witness his journey as he helped launch pioneers Alan Shepard and John Glenn, before taking the lead as Flight Director for the...