Diverse Mission Control Sachbücher Gene Kranz

This New York Times bestselling memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight director. 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 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. He reveals behind-the-scenes details to demonstrate the leadership, discipline, trust, and teamwork that made the space program a success. A fascinating firsthand account by a veteran mission controller of one of America’s greatest achievements, Failure is Not an Option reflects on what has happened to the space program and offers his own bold suggestions about what we ought to be doing in space now.

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

Ein reichhaltiger, hinter den Kulissen spielender Bericht über die Experten, die das Leben von Amerikas ersten Raumfahrern in ihren Händen hielten. Informationen über den Autor: Eugene F. Kranz trat 1960 der NASA Space Task Group bei und war stellvertretender Flugdirektor für das Projekt Mercury (die ursprünglichen bemannten Raumfahrtmissionen). Er setzte seine Tätigkeit als Flugdirektor für die Mondlandung von Apollo 11 fort. Er ist Mitempfänger der Presidential Medal of Freedom für seine Arbeit bei der Leitung der Apollo 13-Teams. "Failure Is Not an Option" ist sein erstes Buch. Er lebt mit seiner Familie in der Nähe von Houston, Texas. Kapitel Eins: Der Vier-Zoll-Flug "Houston, wir haben ein Problem." Irgendwann in den Stunden, die auf diese knappe Ankündigung von Apollo 13 folgten, fragten sich viele von uns im NASA-Missionskontrollzentrum, ob wir die Besatzung verlieren würden. Jeder von uns hatte unauslöschliche Erinnerungen an jenen schrecklichen Tag vor drei Jahren.