Listen

Description

Gene Kranz, who was portrayed by Ed Harris in the Oscar-winning movie Apollo 13, — also! earned a SAG and Critics’ Choice Movie Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role— sits down with Dave on Dave Ward & Friends.

They talk about how the US Space Program launched both their careers, from the start of the Mercury rockets, to the famed Apollo 13 and beyond for Gene. Dave talks about covering all the launches, starting in radio from the very beginning of the rocket programs to the discontinuation of the Space Shuttle in 2011. (Dave Ward is the only journalist in the world to have covered all NASA space launches)