Over seven days in April 1970, Gene Kranz solidified his legend in the long history of legends at NASA. Kranz was the flight director credited with bringing the Apollo 13 astronauts home after a near-catastrophic equipment failure. Kranz’s quick and decisive thinking in the face of unclear and incomplete information led to a series of solutions to the right problems at the right moments, bringing the astronauts to a soft splashdown in the Pacific near a waiting USS Iwo Jima.