Gene Kranz - Failure Is Not an Option

American public

and space program

Anders, William

Apollo

Anderson

Anderton, David

Antares

Apollo 1

fire

Apollo 4

Apollo 5

Apollo 6

Apollo 7

Apollo 8

Apollo 9

Apollo 10

Apollo 11

astronaut badge

phase assignments

Apollo 12

lightning strike

Apollo 13

explosion

reentry

Apollo 14

Apollo 15

Apollo 16

Apollo 17

Apollo 18

Apollo 19

Apollo Application Program

Apollo missions

canceled

duration of

final

splashdown parties

unmanned

Apollo program

final missions

first manned missions

guidance and navigation systems and software

leaders in

problems in

Apollo spacecraft

Apollo Saturn

Aquarius

“Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In,”

Arabian, Don

Armed Forces Judo Association

Armstrong, Neil

Apollo 11

Gemini 8

remote site assignment

Army Redstone Arsenal

Astronauts

in Apollo 13 crisis resolution

ejection

expected loss of

experiments performed by

food

hands-on control of spacecraft

and Mercury Control

Mercury Seven

and Mission Control

relationship with ground control

remote site CapComs

right stuff

second group

seven original

training for Apollo program

training for lunar exploration

Atlas rocket

blockhouses

failures

MA-3

Atlas/Agena

Attitude control problem

Attitude control systems

Attitude control tests

Augmented target docking adapter (ATDA)

Aurora 7

Australia tracking station

Aviation Week magazine

Avro Arrow (aircraft)

Avro flight test and design team

B-52

Bales, Steve

Ballistic missions

Bassett, Charlie

Bay of Pigs

Bean, Alan

Apollo 12

Beck, Hal

Bendix (Co.)

Bergman, Jules

Bermuda tracking station

site team

Berry, Charles (Chuck)

Black Panthers

Black Team

Bland, Nelson

Blockhouse

Blue Team

Boatman, Dana

Boeing (Co.)

Borman, Frank

Apollo 8

Gemini 7

Bostick, Jerry

Bowen, Maureen

Brand, Vance

Bray, Don

Bronze Team

Brooks, Mel

Brotherhood

Brown, Bob

Bucholz, Bill (Big Shoes)

Burke, Walter

Burton, Clint

Burton, Mary Shep

Byrd, Richard

Caidin, Martin

California tracking station

Canary Islands tracking site

Canin, Larry

Canton Island CapCom (CTN)

Canton Island tracking site

CapCom(s)

remote site

Cape Canaveral, Florida

Capsule systems, handbooks for

Capsules

problems recovering

“Captain Refsmmat”

Cargill, Eugene

Carlton, Bob

Carnarvon, Australia

Carpenter, Scott

as CapCom

second Mercury orbital mission

Carr, Gerry

Carroll, Harry

Casey, Chuck

Casper

Castro, Fidel

Cernan, Gene

Apollo 17

Gemini 9

Chaffee, Roger

Apollo 1

death of

Challenger

Charlesworth, Cliff

Earth Resources Project Office

flight director

in management

Charlie Brown

Chimpanzees

Coastal Sentry Quebec (CSQ) tracking ship

Cocoa Beach

Coen, Gary

Cohen, Aaron

Cold War

Coleman, Jack

Collins, Mike

Apollo 11

Columbia

Columbus, Christopher

Command and control principle

Command and Service Module (CSM)

Apollo 7

Apollo 9

Apollo 11

Apollo 12

Apollo 13

Apollo 14

Apollo 15

Apollo 17

“funnies” in

modifications to

power provided by

qualifying

testing

Command module

Apollo missions

Communications blackout(s)

Communications system

remote site

Communications technology

Computer program alarms

Computers

in Apollo program

crashing

digital

in dual launch

lunar module

new software in

onboard

simulation

trajectory software

Congress

funding for space program

and future of space program

Conrad, Charles (Pete)

Apollo 12

Gemini-Titan 5

Contractors

Control systems

Controllers

background of

culture of

debriefings

FCD

failures

information available to

knowledge level of

learning by doing

Mercury program

new

post-Apollo

relations among

relationship with astronauts

responsibilities

Cook, James

Coons, Dwight

Cooper, Gordon (Gordo)

final Mercury mission

Gemini-Titan 5

one-day mission

Craven, Jack

Critzos, Chris

Cryogenics

Cuba

Cunningham, Walt

Daley, Richard

Dana, Bill

De Atkine, Joe

Decision making

Decision process

Deiterich, Chuck

Docking

Apollo 14

Apollo 15

Gemini missions

by Russians

Doctors

see also Flight surgeons

Doerner, George

Douglas, Bill

Dowling, Jack

Dual launch capability

Dual launch missions

Duke, Charlie

Apollo 11

Apollo 13

Apollo 16

“Dumb shit medals” (DSM)

E mission

Eagle

Earth Resources Project Office

Echo check

Eisele, Donn

Eisenhower, Dwight

Ejection seats

Electrochemistry

Ellington Air Force Base Officers Club

Endeavour

Engineering Directorate

Engineers

Apollo

and Apollo 13 crisis

based at Space Task Group headquarters

becoming operators

recruiting

and rockets

Enos (chimpanzee)

Ernull, Bob

Ernst, Jack

Erwin, Sue

Escape tower

Eshelman (Teletype operator)

EVA (extravehicular activity)

Apollo 9

Apollo 11

Apollo 13

Apollo 15

Apollo 16

Apollo 17

Apollo missions

Gemini 4

Gemini 9

Evans, Ron

Apollo 17

Experiment Packages

Experiment Systems Branch

Experiments

F-86F Sabre jets

F-100 Super Sabres

Faget, Max

Failure

not an option

Faith 7

Falcon

Fendell, Ed

Fenner, Will

Field geology trip

Fire-in-the-hole

“Firefly” phenomenon

Flight Control

Air Force officers assigned to

beer mug

systems team

toughness and competence

turning point in

Flight Control Branch

Flight Control Division (FCD)

Experiment Packages

Kranz made chief of

operations branches

Simulation Branch

Flight Control Operations Branch

Flight control team

Apollo 11

emblem

training of

Flight directors

colors retired

debates among

dual

honorary title

honored for Apollo 13, crisis resolution

identifying colors

job description

lead

mandate

need for information

pre-mission period

and NASA management

new generation of

press conferences

role of

training

Flight Dynamics

Flight dynamics team

see also Trench, The

Flight Operations

Flight Operations Directorate

Flight Operations Division (FOD)

Flight Readiness Review

Apollo 11

Flight rules

Flight surgeons

and EVA

Flight tests

manned

Four-inch Flight

Frank, Pete

Freedom 7

Freeman, Ted

Frenchman’s Flat

Friendship 7

Fucci, Jim

Fuel cells