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Failure Is Not an Option

Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
Autor: Gene Kranz
Sprecher: Danny Campbell
Spieldauer: 18 Std. und 14 Min.
Kategorien: Biografien & Erinnerungen, Akademiker & Spezialisten
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Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race. He helped to launch Alan Shepard and John Glenn, then assumed the flight director's role in the Gemini program, which he guided to fruition. With his teammates, he accepted the challenge to carry out President John F. Kennedy's commitment to land a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s.

Kranz was flight director for both Apollo 11, the mission in which Neil Armstrong fulfilled President Kennedy's pledge, and Apollo 13. He headed the Tiger Team that had to figure out how to bring the three Apollo 13 astronauts safely back to Earth. (In the film Apollo 13, Kranz was played by the actor Ed Harris, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance.)

In Failure Is Not an Option, Gene Kranz recounts these thrilling historic events and offers new information about the famous flights. What appeared as nearly flawless missions to the moon were, in fact, a series of hair-raising near misses. When the space technology failed, as it sometimes did, the controllers' only recourse was to rely on their skills and those of their teammates. Kranz takes us inside Mission Control and introduces us to some of the whiz kids - still in their twenties, only a few years out of college - who had to figure it all out as they went along, creating a great and daring enterprise. He reveals behind-the-scenes details to demonstrate the leadership, discipline, trust, and teamwork that made the space program a success.

©2009 Gene Kranz (P)2011 Tantor

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"Plenty of books (and several films) have already tried to depict the space program's excitement; few of their creators had the first-person experience or the attention to detail Krantz has, whose role as flight control "White" his readers will admire or even wish to emulate." ( Publishers Weekly)

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Fascinating!

Very interesting overview of the early US space program from the perspective of MCC. Full recommendations!

2 Leute fanden das hilfreich

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Great book for everybody interested in Spaceflight

There are not many good books about the earliest steps of humankind to conquer space, but this one sure is great. It has the perfect mixture between personal information, a bit biography, not too much technological detail and very exciting descritpions about the problems, almost-catastrophies, calamities and wonders of the program, that brought the first man on the moon. A little detail that adds to the fascination is, that the reader of the book, Danny Campbell, exactly sounds as you would expect Gene Kranz, the author, to sound like.

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Nicht lesen ist keine Option!

Pflichtlektüre für alle Raumfahrtfans. Spannend durch viele Fakten, die noch nie oder nie so fesselnd berichtet wurden.

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Profile Image for Jörg Behrendt

Great story

Good narrator, riveting story, space history story telling at its best. Thanks to Gene Kranz

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aufschlussreich aber zu viel Pathos

Viele interessante und spannende Aspekte der Bodenarbeit werden angesprochen. Physikalische Details bleiben im Rahmen (ich hätte mich über mehr gefreut, aber das ist Ansichtssache).
Das ganze ist spannend und wird entsprechend spannend gelesen.
Für meinen Geschmack wird aber viel zu viel Heldentum beschworen.

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very American

In-Depth view on the life of an Apollo flight-contoller - thus as informative as american

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Quite boring.

I am an engineer myself and even for me too many details, no good storyline.