‘I’m too proud to even describe it’: Apollo flight director, Toledo native Gene Kranz describes emotions watching Artemis II mission

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - 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 NASA’s current capabilities with the tools available to astronauts during the Apollo era.

His full interview with Shaun Hegarty is available now in the video player above this story.

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