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CONTENTS
1 The Four-Inch Flight
2 "Liftoff; the Clock Is Running"
3 "God Speed, John Glenn"
4 The Brotherhood
5 The Making of a Rocket Man
6 Gemini -- The Twins
7 White Flight
8 The Spirit of 76
9 The Angry Alligator
10 A Fire on the Pad
11 Out of the Ashes
12 The X Mission
13 The Christmas Story
14 1969 -- The Year of Apollo
15 SimSup Wins the Final Round
16 "We Copy You Down, Eagle"
17 "What the Hell Was That?"
18 The Age of Aquarius
19 Coming Home
20 Shepard's Return
21 What Do You Do After the Moon?
22 The Last Liftoff
Epilogue
Where They Are
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Foundations of Mission Control
Glossary of Terms
Index
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Mary Morhart
reviewed Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond on August 31, 2008
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
Ultimately this book was just OK...I was very interested in reading about the early NASA programs from the perspective of someone on the ground instead of one of the astronauts, and it definitely delivered in that regard.
Kranz details his whole career at NASA from its start to its peak and through its decline. I mostly wanted to read this book to hear about the Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 missions, but the sections on those were actually somewhat short. Instead, Kranz included almost too much detail on the earlier Mercury and Gemini programs.
The biggest weakness of this book is that there is generally a lack of storytelling...it's hard to follow a specific theme or challenge throughout the pages, so it just seems like a disjointed set of chapters that are good in their own right, but don't form any cohesive story that make you want to keep turning the pages.
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