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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 629.4530973
EAN: 9780425179871
ISBN: 0425179877
Label: Berkley Trade
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: May 01, 2001
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Release Date: May 08, 2001
Sales Rank: 103568
Studio: Berkley Trade
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Book Description:
A breathtaking, first-hand account of the early days of the NASA space program, through the eyes of the man who held it all together...
Amazon.com:
In 1957, the Russians launched Sputnik and the ensuing space race. Three years later, Gene Kranz left his aircraft testing job to join NASA and champion the American cause. What he found was an embryonic department run by whiz kids (such as himself), sharp engineers and technicians who had to create the Mercury mission rules and procedure from the ground up. As he says, 'Since there were no books written on the actual methodology of space flight, we had to write them as we went along.'
Kranz was part of the mission control team that, in January 1961, launched a chimpanzee into space and successfully retrieved him, and made Alan Shepard the first American in space in May 1961. 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. You see NASA through his eyes, from its primitive days when he first joined up, through the 1993 shuttle mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, his last mission control project. His memoir, however, is not high literature. Kranz has many accomplishments and honors to his credit, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, but this is his first book, and he's not a polished author. There are, perhaps, more behind-the-scenes details and more paragraphs devoted to what Cape Canaveral looked like than the general public demands. 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. --Stephanie Gold
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Rating:  - Living History and Inspiration for Our Times
Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
This book came highly reccommended by other teachers at Advanced Space Academy for Educators.It is a great companion to A Man on the Moon.
Gene Kranz is an inspiration for us all.In today's world we need his message.He makes one feel that if we can go to the moon then we can accomplish anything that we set out as a nation to do.
Rating: - Be Tough and Competent!
Gene Kranz does an amazing job of showing what people can do if they have the right leadership, teamwork, commitment and passion.
The book allows us to see Kranz's perspective as flight controller, (and later flight director) during his tenure on the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programs and beyond.
From the tremendous successes, to the gut wrenching failures, to the heroism, to the practical jokes, this book has it all.Gene Kranz was a key player in helping to ... Read More
Rating: - Be Tough and Competent!
Gene Kranz does an amazing job of showing what people can do if they have the right leadership, teamwork, commitment and passion.
The book allows us to see Kranz's perspective as flight controller, (and later flight director) during his tenure on the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space programs and beyond.
From the tremendous successes, to the gut wrenching failures, to the heroism, to the practical jokes, this book has it all.Gene Kranz was a key player in helping to ... Read More
Rating: - Space, did we lose our way?
Gene's memories from the first halting attempts to launch rockets into space through the successfull Apollo moon program paint vivid pictures of what happened inside the space agency on a non-technical level in building the space program.Good review of challenging and motivating people to envision the what-if and do it step by step.Small references to lack of vision in senior leadership of space program after the Kennedy moon goal was achieved.
Rating:  - Interesting Read
This is a really interesting read, and a must have if you have any interest in the space race at all. This is a book with a lot of detail about each mission that Gene Kranz was involved in, and is interspersed with some neat personal information about his family. Buy it and enjoy it!!
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