ORLANDO, Fla. - James Lovell and Gene Kranz know a lot about success and failure. In fact, the whole world knows of their successes and failures. Lovell was the command module commander aboard Apollo 8, man's maiden voyage to the moon, and later Apollo 13, the ill-fated moon mission that turned into an epic life-and-death battle to return to Earth in a crippled spacecraft.
Kranz spent 37 years in the NASA space program and contributed to the success of the Skylab program. He was the flight director who successfully helped bring back Lovell's Apollo 13 spacecraft.