Jean kranz had a prolific career as a nasa flight and Missions Operation director. He was acting flight director when the apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon, and as lead flight director of the apollo 13 mission, he had a significant role in guiding three astronauts back to earth after an explosion on the spacecraft. This is part one of a oral history interview landing flight director, werent you. You were in charge of that. You took part in the whole thing. lets go over apollo n unidentified speaker 11. A big project. Theres many things that stand out. A person says where were you when . I sure had an awful lot of great breaks in my life. I mean, whether they be in college, whether they be in flying airplanes, but one of the ones that i remember that is related to apollo 11 in a very direct fashion is the day i got the assignment to do the landing phase. Cliff charlesworth was the lead flight director and one of the responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which