Gene Kranz (in vest, as Apollo 13 safely splashed ... But the task turned out to be more complicated than Apollo 13’s costume designers anticipated. Marta Kranz had used faille, a fine-grained ...

Listen to a short lecture given by curator Margaret Weitekamp on Gene Kranz career with NASA and how his vest ended up at the Smithsonian National Treasure: Amelia Earhart Designed a New Future ...