Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond by Gene Kranz

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31415926535897's review against another edition

5.0
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5.0
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4.75
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Apollo, Manned Space Flight
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4.5
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5.0
Read this in my teenaged years - loved it! Gene Kranz is one of my space heroes.
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lucardus's review against another edition

3.0
It was interesting but not so detailed in technical details as I hoped.

frostap's review against another edition

3.0
A slog. So much jargon!!!!!! Would have been better if I had legit interest in NASA.
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3.0
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Liked the part about apollo 13  but what I really took away from  this is that No one had any work life balance.
You can tell this was written by a white man. 

waynediane's review against another edition

4.0
Very long and detailed history of NASA. Gene Kranz leaves nothing out. He gives a different view point than The Right Stuff. He explains in detail the beginning of the program before Kennedy with the Russians beating us up into space during the cold war. Kennedy's call to We go to the moon not because it is easy, but because it is hard. Maybe paraphrasing, the problems that were not discussed during many of the flights etc. While, I know it is difficult to cut somethings out some stories and dynamics of the players in mission control flight command could have been simplified.

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4.0
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