Gene Kranz

Failure Is Not an Option (eBook, ePUB)

Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Perhaps best known through Ed Harris's Oscar-nominated portrayal in the film Apollo 13, Gene Kranz was a NASA flight controller throughout the entire manned space program. Kranz witnessed everything from Alan Shepard's and John Glenn's early flights in the Mercury program through the triumph of Neil Armstrong's giant leap for mankind in Apollo 11 and the near-disaster of Apollo 13. Kranz headed the "tiger team" that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts, and he provides new details about the urgent and successful improvising that brought the crew safely back to Earth.

Failure Is Not an Option is a thrilling insider's account of Mission Control from the early years of trying to catch the Russians to the end of the manned space program. It is filled with behind-the-scenes stories, including the painful self-examination that took place following the Apollo 1 disaster and the daring decision to schedule an Apollo flight to the moon before NASA had ever launched a manned rocket beyond earth orbit. Kranz's stories about the dedication and resourcefulness of the astronaut corps and Mission Control teams show how an organization dominated by young people only in their twenties could succeed in one of the boldest missions in human history, placing a man on the moon in less than a decade.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743214476
• Artikelnr.: 37841463

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

CONTENTS
1 The Four-Inch Flight
2 "Liftoff; the Clock Is Running"
3 "God Speed, John Glenn"
4 The Brotherhood
5 The Making of a Rocket Man
6 Gemini -- The Twins
7 White Flight
8 The Spirit of 76
9 The Angry Alligator
10 A Fire on the Pad
11 Out of the Ashes
12 The X Mission
13 The Christmas Story
14 1969 -- The Year of Apollo
15 SimSup Wins the Final Round
16 "We Copy You Down, Eagle"
17 "What the Hell Was That?"
18 The Age of Aquarius
19 Coming Home
20 Shepard's Return
21 What Do You Do After the Moon?
22 The Last Liftoff
Epilogue
Where They Are
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Foundations of Mission Control
Glossary of Terms
Index