Failure is not an option : mission control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and beyond / Gene Kranz.

• Four-inch flight -- "Liftoff; the clock is running" -- "God speed, John Glenn" -- Brotherhood -- Making of a rocket man -- Gemini: the twins -- White flight -- Spirit of 76 -- The angry alligator -- A fire on the pad -- Out of the ashes -- The X mission -- The Christmas story -- 1969: the year of Apollo -- SimSup wins the final round -- "We copy you down, Eagle" -- "What the hell was that?" -- The age of Aquarius -- Coming home -- Shepard's return -- What do you do after the moon -- The last liftoff.

• The author, flight director in NASA's Mission Control, tells of the challenges in space flight from the very early years to the current time and of "his own bold suggestions about what we ought to be doing in space now."--Jacket. 

Ämnesord

Manned space flight  -- Systems engineering -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Ground support systems (Astronautics)  -- History. (LCSH)

Astronautics  -- United States -- History. (LCSH)

Aerospace engineering.  (fast)

Astronautics.  (fast)

Ground support systems (Astronautics)  (fast)

MANNED SPACE FLIGHT.  (nasat)

GROUND SUPPORT SYSTEMS.  (nasat)

HISTORIES.  (nasat)

Manned space flight  -- Systems engineering. (fast)

Bemannade rymdfärder  -- historia (sao)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

United States.  (fast)

UNITED STATES.  (nasat)

Genre

History.  (fast)

Autographs.  (rbprov)

Personnamn

Kranz, Gene -- Careers in aerospace engineering.

Kranz, Gene.

Institutionsnamn

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Förenta staterna. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Klassifikation

TL873 (LCC)

629.4530973 (DDC)

Prde (kssb/8 (machine generated))