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Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a airfare director in NASA's Quest Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of record. He participated in the space program from the early times of the Mercury program to the last Apollo objective, and beyond. He endured the devastating first years when rockets blew up and america seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race. He helped to release Alan Shepard and John Glenn, then assumed the airfare director's role in the Gemini program, which he guided to fruition. Along with his teammates, he accepted the task to carry out Leader John F. Kennedy's dedication to land a guy on the moon before the end of the 1960s. Kranz was airfare director for both Apollo 11, the objective in which Neil Armstrong fulfilled Leader Kennedy's pledge, and Apollo 13. He headed the Tiger Team that experienced to determine how to bring the three Apollo 13 astronauts easily back to Earth. (Within the film Apollo 13, Kranz was played out by the actor Ed Harris, who attained an Academy Prize nomination for his performance.) In Inability ISN'T an Option, Gene Kranz recounts these fascinating historic events and offers new information about the famous flights. What made an appearance as nearly perfect missions to the moon were, in reality, some hair-raising near misses. When the space technology failed, as it sometimes have, the controllers' only recourse was to count on the skills and those of their teammates. Kranz calls for us inside Quest Control and introduces us to some of the whiz kids - still in their twenties, only a few years out of university - who experienced to figure everything out as they proceeded to go along, creating a great and daring business. He reveals behind-the-scenes details to demonstrate the leadership, discipline, trust, and teamwork that made the space program successful.
