Gene Kranz: The Prototypical Flight Controller

Gene Kranz had always wanted to be a pilot, but his flying career almost crashed on take-off. Accepted into the U.S. Naval Academy, he flunked the physical due to diabetes.
“I had been working at the A&P warehouse and living on chocolate milk and brownies,” Kranz, 75, said. “We didn’t have money to go to college, [...]