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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: 22805
Studio: Berkley Trade
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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 Review:
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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Excellent account of the backstage of America's Space Program, you could really fill the atmosphere inside Mission Control,and the contribution made to it's success by a miriad of unknown Hero's.
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I was given this as a gift. As a space program enthusiast I have read a lot. This one is not written by a historian, author, or journalist. It is a memoir of a person who was right there working it as it happened. Kranz was there from the beginning, and helped design how the training and rehearsing was done.
This is a must read if you want to get an insider's point of view of how history was made. It answered a lot of questions for me as to how NASA's magical team made the ... Read More
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I have an insatiable interest in NASA and the space program, so I try to read as many books as I can (and as many books as I have time for) on the subject. Bearing that in mind, I was very excited to read Gene Kranz's memoir of his time in Mission Control from Project Mercury to the end of Apollo. I was in no way disappointed with this captivating read.
Most of the books about the space program are either biographies/memoirs of the astronauts or an overall history of NASA. Gene Kranz ... Read More
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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.
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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
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