As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Gene 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 and, with his teammates, accepted President Kennedy's challenge to land a man on the moon. Now Kranz recounts these thrilling years and offers new information about the famous flights. He takes us inside Mission Control and introduces us to some of the whiz kids who ...
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As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Gene 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 and, with his teammates, accepted President Kennedy's challenge to land a man on the moon. Now Kranz recounts these thrilling years and offers new information about the famous flights. He takes us inside Mission Control and introduces us to some of the whiz kids who had to figure it out as they went along, creating a great and daring enterprise.
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I bought this book to learn more about the space program from its early inception and have gotten the answers that I was looking for. Throughout the book it became clear how complicated this race to the moon really was. I just finished it and it gives a good chronological description of not only the successes but the failures, the many people involved. At times one needs to stay really focussed because it gets very technical but personally I liked it as I am very interested in the hardware as well. It fulfilled my expectations and I can certainly recommend it to anyone interested in space exploration in general and the Apollo program in particular since that program occupies most if the book.
