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

Pages: 416, Edition: First printing, Hardcover, Simon & Schuster

The thrilling story of NASA s Mission Control teams that guided the Apollo spacecraft through successful lunar landings is recounted by Apollo 13 flight director Gene Kranz. Published on the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 13 mission. From the Publisher Perhaps best known through Ed Harris s Oscar-nominated portrayal in the film Apollo 13, Gene Kranz was a NASA flight controller throughout the entire manned space program. Kranz witnessed everything from Alan Shepard s and John Glenn s early flights in the Mercury program through the triumph of Neil Armstrong s giant leap for mankind in Apollo 11 and the near-disaster of Apollo 13. Kranz headed the tiger team that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts, and he provides new details about the urgent and successful improvising that brought the crew safely back to Earth. Failure Is Not an Option is a thrilling insider s account of Mission Control from the early years of trying to catch the Russians to the end of the manned space program. It is filled with behind-the-scenes