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Director Quote by Gene Kranz

“I was working as a flight director on the Gemini…” quote by Gene Kranz — Download Open 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 the Apollo Program.”

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I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade.

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I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.

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In particular, with my control team, I demanded the responsibilities to do all of the mission preparation, mission design, the writing of the procedures,…

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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…

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Faliure is not an option.

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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…

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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,…

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Unfortunately as the result of the shutdown of the shuttle program, we lost an entire generation of people experience and capable of making risk…

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I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.

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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…

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“Probability said that someday we would run out of luck—as”

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We've learned a lot by building the International Space Station, the good, the bad. But, the fact is is that working together as a…

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