I remember my mom and I were attending a PTA meeting and all of a sudden my Dad showed up (VERY unusual!) and announced that "the mission was in trouble". Apollo 13 was something we took personally in our house. As a child of the 60's, we were rousted out of bed many an early morning to watch a "shot go up".
Dad worked on the Lunar Rover and various Apollo mission components as part of Boeing in Seattle. Every one of the pare I'm the daughter of a space guy. He reveals behind-the-scenes details to demonstrate the leadership, discipline, trust, and teamwork that made the space program a success.Ī fascinating firsthand account by a veteran mission controller of one of America’s greatest achievements, Failure is Not an Option reflects on what has happened to the space program and offers his own bold suggestions about what we ought to be doing in space now.more When the space technology failed, as it sometimes did, the controllers’ only recourse was to rely on their skills and those of their teammates.
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What appeared as nearly flawless missions to the Moon were, in fact, a series of hair-raising near misses. Kranz recounts these thrilling historic events and offers new information about the famous flights. Kennedy’s commitment to land a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s. With his teammates, he accepted the challenge to carry out President John F. He helped to launch Alan Shepard and John Glenn, then assumed the flight director’s role in the Gemini program, which he guided to fruition. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. As a flight director in NASA’s Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America’s manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA’s Mission Control, This memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight director. This memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight director.
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