Famed Nasa Flight Director To Speak At Purdue

(AP) — The former NASA flight director who helped bring Apollo 13's astronauts back to Earth following a deep-space explosion will deliver a lecture at Purdue University next month. Actor Ed Harris portrayed Kranz in the 1995 film "Apollo 13" that detailed the April 1970 oxygen tank explosion that crippled the Apollo 13 astronauts' main spacecraft as they were en route to the moon.

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