Gene Kranz's cardstock "NASA Operations" badge for Mercury-Redstone 4, Gus Grissom's flight aboard the Liberty Bell 7, 4 x 2.5, signed on the reverse in blue felt tip, "My MR-4 Operations Badge, Eugene F. Kranz." The front is imprinted with a Project Mercury emblem, and numbered "1809." In fine condition.
As Procedures Officer, Gene Kranz was put in charge of integrating Mercury Control with the Launch Control Team at Cape Canaveral, Florida, writing the "Go/NoGo" procedures that allowed missions to continue as planned or be aborted. He also served as a sort of switchboard operator between the control center at Cape Canaveral and the agency's fourteen tracking stations and two tracking ships (via teletype) located across the globe. Kranz performed this role for all crewed and uncrewed Mercury flights, including America's second manned spaceflight: Gus Grissom's historic MR-4 mission.
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