He writes as if being interviewed, and while his stories can be riveting he frequently lapses into trite cold war clichés, jingoism, and at times appallingly egotistical reverie. Kranz is not a historian or a social scientist this is a work of autobiography. space program, flight by flight, through the completion of the Apollo missions. From the standpoint of a flight director, Kranz relates the evolution of the U.S. This small cadre of flight directors and controllers-taken from government posts, the military, and the aerospace industry-had to create Mission Control from scratch, inventing everything from the rules of flight to the hardware itself in a race to space with the Soviets. Kranz was one of a select group recruited to develop the procedures, protocols, safety steps, and pre- and postflight regimes of the program and to administer NASA flight control. $14.įailure Is Not an Option is Gene Kranz's epic personal account of the liftoff of the U.S. Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyondįailure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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