That would be Gene Kranz for those playing along at home (sorry Tom...had to...lol). If you haven't already read it, his book is quite entertaining. It gave a good picture of how much of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs were kind being made up as they went along; as well as how young and unproven alot of the people thrust into important roles were. Yet those people came together when it counted and learned some hard lessons from their mistakes that made them capable of responding with a solution when the Apollo 13 incident occurred.

Truly remarkable people who made those programs happen, and it would be a shame to walk away from the human space exploration legacy that we have built upon their shoulders with Skylab and the Shuttle. I hope we can come up with a means to keep flying the shuttle as long as necessary and stay on track to keep reaching further into space.