I was working as a flight director on the Gemini IX mission, and it seemed almost overnight I was picking up the… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test.… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
I was the most emotional of the flight directors. Space really got me all honked up. — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
On the first flight test of any spacecraft, you're going to find surprises. — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade. — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do. — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
I was working as a flight director on the Gemini IX mission, and it seemed almost overnight I was picking up the responsibilities for… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
In particular, with my control team, I demanded the responsibilities to do all of the mission preparation, mission design, the writing of the procedures,… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
There's an awful lot of future out there, and what you got to do, is you go to out and grab it, wrestle it… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
I did everything by the numbers. I had checklists upon checklists. If I wasn't ahead of everybody on my team, I didn't feel I… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
If you didn't like somebody, you just let 'em know it, and hopefully that would square 'em away. Not only would they critique me,… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
Unfortunately as the result of the shutdown of the shuttle program, we lost an entire generation of people experience and capable of making risk… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk. — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
