Gene Kranz is probably one of the most famous people from the Apollo moon landing era that wasn’t an actual astronaut. In his book “Failure is not an option”, Gene racants his memories from the era, starting off from when NASA was a fledgling operation, NASA Houston wasn’t even built and Kennedy Space Center wasn’t more than just an empty swampland to landing on the moon and final Apollo 17 mission.
Gene details the problems encountered and what the early people of NASA had to overcome. There were no manuals back then, no procedures, nothing to base anything on as this was all brand new, never been done before so things had to be made up on the spot and revised over time. Since lives were depending on the procedures everything had to be correct first time around. Along with procedures for Mission Control, the global communications network had to be built, recovery procedures etc. etc. This is a totally engrossing tale of the hardships that the people at mission control went through, the problems that they encountered including the lightning strike on Apollo 12 and of course Apollo 13. Recommended.
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, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. 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 helped to launch Alan Shepard and John Glenn, then assumed the flight director’s role in the Gemini program, which he guided to fruition. With his teammates, he accepted the challenge to carry out President John F. Kennedy’s commitment to land a man on the Moon before the end of the 1960s.
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Kranz was flight director for both Apollo 11, the mission in which Neil Armstrong fulfilled President Kennedy’s pledge, and Apollo 13. He headed the Tiger Team that had to figure out how to bring the three Apollo 13 astronauts safely back to Earth. (In the film Apollo 13, Kranz was played by the actor Ed Harris, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance.)
In Failure Is Not an Option, Gene Kranz recounts these thrilling historic events and offers new information about the famous flights. What appeared as nearly flawless missions to the Moon were, in fact, a series of hair-raising near misses. When the space technology failed, as it sometimes did, the controllers’ only recourse was to rely on their skills and those of their teammates. Kranz takes us inside Mission Control and introduces us to some of the whiz kids — still in their twenties, only a few years out of college — who had to figure it all out as they went along, creating a great and daring enterprise. He reveals behind-the-scenes details to demonstrate the leadership, discipline, trust, and teamwork that made the space program a success.
Finally, Kranz 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. This is a fascinating firsthand account written by a veteran mission controller of one of America’s greatest achievements.
Info For Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
- ISBN-10: 0743200799 ( Download PDF :
) - ISBN-13: 978-0743200790
- Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 1.3 x 9.2 inches
- Hardcover: 416 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition (April 12, 2000)
- Language: English
- Author: Gene Kranz
About the Author
Eugene F. Kranz joined the NASA Space Task Group in 1960 and was Assistant Flight Director for Project Mercury (the original manned space missions). He continued as Flight Director for the Apollo 11 lunar landing. He is a co-recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work leading the Apollo 13 teams. Failure Is Not an Option is his first book. He lives with his family near Houston, Texas.
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