From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each… — 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
