Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz

Author:Gene Kranz [Kranz, Gene]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Systems engineering, Technology & Engineering, Kranz; Gene - Career in aerospace engineering, Ground support systems (Astronautics) - History, Ground support systems (Astronautics), Manned space flight - Systems engineering - United States - History, Science, Science & Technology, Manned space flight, General, United States, Outer space, Astronautics, Astrophysics & Space Science, Biography & Autobiography, Astronautics - United States - History, Aeronautics & Astronautics, History
ISBN: 9780743200790
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2000-04-11T21:00:00+00:00

I recognized a few of the Thompson committee members. Frank Borman, the Gemini astronaut, and Max Faget, the director of engineering, were from MSC, and John Williams was from the Cape launch team. When Hodge completed his briefing, I still did not know what I wanted to say as he motioned me to the microphone. Emotionally I had come out of the shock, and my feeling now was one of pure anger. Anger that we in Flight Control in some way had let the crew down.

I climbed the four steps to the stage, looking at all those faces of people I knew so well. I wanted them to get beyond shock, then say, as St. Peter did in one of his epistles, “Let us get good and angry—and then let us make no mistakes.” Yes, we had experienced a terrible tragedy and a devastating setback, but this was not the end. The testing and the program would go on and we were the ones who would carry it forward. It was up to us to make sure that the Apollo 1 crew had not died in vain.

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