Failure is not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
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...
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...
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780425179871 (0425179877)
Publish date: May 1st 2001
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Science,
Space,
American History,
Biography Memoir,
Leadership,
Engineering
I liked this both better and worse than a three-star review might indicate. The better part was that it was exactly what I wanted: an in depth look at the space program from setting up for Mercury to closing out Apollo, with a focus on mission control, but including details from the astronauts and t...
You know, the NASA guy who wore the white vest. Gene, what the heck took you so long to get around to writing this book?? This is not the first book that I have read about the early days of NASA but what made this different is that it was written by one of the few non-astronauts that that folks can ...
Flight Director Gene Kranz was involved with NASA's Mission Control since 1960 in the early days of the agency during the Mercury Program, and was "Flight" during the first Moon Landing and during Apollo 13--and became famous as a result of the film of that name. The title is taken from a line given...
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