Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (902 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1439148813 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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A must-read if you want to know how much was involved in getting to the moon John M. Vizcarra I was first introduced to the idea of Gene Kranz when I first saw the film Apollo 13, and then again shortly after I saw the excellent HBO miniseries, From the Earth to the Moon. I found his steely-eyed, take-no-bull, calm and collected attitude, portrayed by Ed Harris in Apollo 13 and Dan Butler in the HBO series, to be an integral part of the NASA equation.So when this book, Failure is Not an Option, came up as a daily deal from Audible, I jumped on it. I couldn’t have made a be. Rob said Kindle Edition missing pictures. This book is a great look at the space program from Mercury to Apollo, as told from the viewpoint of Gene Kranz, the man who became famous as the leader of Mission Control during the Apollo 1Kindle Edition missing pictures This book is a great look at the space program from Mercury to Apollo, as told from the viewpoint of Gene Kranz, the man who became famous as the leader of Mission Control during the Apollo 13. Mr. Kranz does a good job of narrating events, walking the line between keeping the book interesting and informative. He does, in my opinion, have some early troubles with the overall flow of the book. We start off with him joining the Mercury program, then after a chapter or two, jumping backwar. . Mr. Kranz does a good job of narrating events, walking the line between keeping the book interesting and informative. He does, in my opinion, have some early troubles with the overall flow of the book. We start off with him joining the Mercury program, then after a chapter or two, jumping backwar. Failure is Not an Option. We should still think that way today! Even though this book is sixteen years old, it still represents a time of honesty, integrity, and respect that is much needed today. NASA and the days of Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo were exciting times of great accomplishment without the technical advantages of today. The country was on a mission. The country was in a race. I believe Gene Kranz was a role model then and still is now.
Just two months later they launched Gus Grissom for a space orbit, John Glenn orbited Earth three times in February 1962, and in May of 1963 Gordon Cooper completed the final Project Mercury launch with 22 Earth orbits. And through them all, and the many Apollo missions that followed, Gene Kranz was one of the integral inside men--one of those who bore the responsibility for the Apollo 1 tragedy, and the leader of the "tiger team" that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts. Moviegoers know Gene Kranz through Ed Harris's Oscar-nominated portrayal of him in Apollo 13, but Kranz provides a more detailed insider's perspective in his book Failure Is Not an Option. If, however, you have a long-standing fascination with aeronautics, if you watched Apollo 13 and wanted more, Failure Is Not an Option will fill the bill. His memoir, however, is not high literature. As he says, "Since there were no books wri
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. 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.Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America’s manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. 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. Kranz recounts these thrilling historic events and offers new information about the famous flights. When the space technology failed, as it sometimes did, the controllers’ only recourse was to rely on their skills and those of their teammates. What appeared as nearly flawless missions to the Moon were, in fact, a series of hair-raising near misses. Kennedy’s commitment to land a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s. He reveals behind-the-scenes details to demonstrate the leadership, discipline, trust, and teamwork that made the space program a success. A 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 pr