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. 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. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author, “To Bob Aim High! Gene Kranz”. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Failure Is Not An Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond.įirst edition, early printing of this memoir by Gene Kranz, who was the flight director from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11.
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