Gene Kranz - Failure Is Not an Option

Apollo 12

Apollo 13

“Funnies” (anomalies, glitches)

Gagarin, Yuri

Gardner, Spencer

Garman, Jack

Gemini 1

Gemini 2

Gemini 3

Gemini 4

Gemini 5

Gemini 6

second launch attempt

Gemini 7

Gemini 8

Gemini 9

Gemini 9A

second launch attempt

Gemini 10

Gemini 76

Gemini missions

duration of

first manned

Gemini program

human factor in

leadership of

Gemini spacecraft

German rocket scientists

Gilruth, Robert

became director of Manned Spacecraft Center

Gimbal lock

Glenn, John

as CapCom

orbital flight

Go NoGo

criteria for

Go NoGo decisions

Apollo 11

Apollo 13 reentry

Gemini-Titan

Mercury-Atlas 6

Mercury-Atlas 9

Go NoGo mission rules

EVA

Go NoGo points

Goddard, Robert

Goddard Space Flight Center

“Goddard voice”

Goett, Harry

Gold Team

Goldin, Daniel

Gordon, Dick

Apollo 12

Gordon Highlanders

Green Team

Greene, Jay

Greenwich mean time

Griffin, Gerry

field geology trip

flight director

handing over to new generation of flight directors

Griffith, Gerry

Grissom, Virgil I. (Gus)

Apollo 1

CapCom at Mission Control

death of

first manned Gemini mission

Gemini-Titan 3

second manned Mercury mission

Gruby, Chuck

Grumman (Co.)

Guaymas, Mexico

Guidance, navigation, control (GNC)

engineers

Hage, George

Haise, Freddo (Fred)

Apollo 13

CapCom, Apollo 14

Ham (chimpanzee)

Hamner, Scott

Hangar S

Hannigan, Jim

Harlan, Charlie

Hatcher, John

Havenstein, Paul

Hawaii CapCom

Hawaii site

Heat shield

Apollo 13

testing

Hibbert, John

Hill, Arthur

Hirt, Al

Hodge, John

and Apollo 1 fire

Apollo program

Blue Team

led Flight Control Division

flight director for Gemini and Apollo

Kranz deputy to

in management

and NASA planning

and organization of Manned

Spacecraft Center

Hofbraugarten

Holloman Air Force Base

Holloway, Tommy

Horizon sensors

Houston

Flight Controller Alley

relocation to

Houston Mission Control Center (MCC-H)

Houston Petroleum Center

Human factor

Hunt, Shirley

Hunter, Dan

Huntsville, Alabama

Huss, Carl

Hutchinson, Neil

I’Anson, Jim

Irwin, Jim

Apollo 15

Iwo Jima (aircraft carrier)

Johnson, Lyndon

Johnson, Paul

Judo

Kamman, Jack

Kapryan, Walt

Kearsarge (carrier)

Kelly, Tom

Kennedy, John F.

assassinated

phone call to astronaut

vow to land man on Moon

Kennedy, Robert F.

Kennedy, Ted

Kennedy Space Center

launch team

Kerwin, Joe

King, Martin Luther

Kirkpatrick, Jeane

Kitty Hawk

Komarov, Vladimir

Koos, Dick

Korea

Korean War

Kraft, Chris

and Apollo 1 fire

and final Apollo missions

flight director: Apollo

flight director: Mercury

flight director: MR-3

FOD chief

Gemini program

head of four divisions

Kranz’s relationship with

legacy of

promotion to MSC director

Kranz, Gene

Air Force flight training/pilot

career, 13

career: acting division chief for flight control

career: Apollo program

career: assistant flight director

career: Chief of Flight Control Division (FCD)

career: deputy to Hodge for Flight

Control Division

career: flight director

career: lead flight director

career: Mercury Control

early life, education

family, children

mentors

vests

Kranz, Helen

Kranz, Leo Peter

Kranz, Louise

Kranz, Marta Cadena

courtship and marriage

vests for husband

Kranz, Peter Joseph

Kundel, Keith

Kyle, Howard

Lackland Air Force Base

Lake Champlain (aircraft carrier)

Landing and Recovery Division

Langley Air Force Base

Langley Research Center

Laughlin Air Force Base

Layton, Al

Leadership/leaders

of Kraft

Leonov, Aleksei

Lewis, Chuck (Skinny)

Ley, Willy

Liberty Bell 7

Liebergot, Sy

Life magazine

Lindbergh, Charles

Littrow, Johann von

Llewellyn, John

and Captain Refsmmat

and Gemini missions

judo

reassigned

Loden, Hal

Loss of signal (LOS)

Lousma, Jack

Lovell, Jim

Apollo 8

Apollo 13

Gemini 7

Low, George

Lunar exploration

Lunar gravity

Lunar landing

Apollo 11

Apollo 15

Apollo 16

first

reasons to abort

rehearsal for

second

Lunar mission plan

Lunar missions

alternate

phases of

Lunar module (LM)

Apollo 5

Apollo 9

Apollo 11

Apollo 12

Apollo 13

Apollo 14

Apollo 15

Apollo 16

Apollo 17

“funnies” in

modifications in

orbital flight test

tests

see also Computers: lunar module

Lunar orbit

Lunar orbit injection (LOI) maneuver

Lunar program

end of

Lunar Rover

Lunar science/scientists

Lunney, Glynn

flight director for Gemini and Apollo

moved into management

McCall, Bob

McDivitt, Jim

McDonnell Aircraft (Co.)

engineers

McDowell

Macmillan, Harold

Maloney, Jim

“Man in space project”

Manned Spacecraft Center (Houston)

digitalized control center

doubled in size

Gilruth became director of

organization of, for future space programs

Manned spaceflight

preparation for

public mandate for

Maroon Team

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)

Massachusetts Insitutute of Technology

Mathews, Chuck

Matthews, Fred

Mattingly, Ken

Apollo 16

Mayer, John

MCC

see Mercury Control Center (MCC)

“Mechanical man”

Medical Research and Operations Directorate

Medical specialists

Mercury-Atlas 1

exploded in flight

Mercury-Atlas 3

Mercury-Atlas 4

Mercury-Atlas 5

Mercury-Atlas 6

Mercury-Atlas 7

Mercury-Atlas 9

Mercury-Atlas missions

Mercury capsule

attitude control systems

escape system

pocket checklist

Mercury Control Center (MCC)

and Apollo 1

assistant flight director (AFD)

and astronauts

CapComs

communications with

crisis center atmosphere

developed by Kraft

lunch wagon

manned missions

MA-3

MR-1

MR-3

new software

original team

Powers voice of

voice and Teletype communications

Mercury missions

final

Mercury program

booster rockets

closed out

communications system

debriefings

delays in

end of

final party

first orbital mission

flight rules

remote site CapComs

second manned mission

second orbital mission

team professionalism

tracking stations

trajectory design

Mercury-Redstone 1 (MR-1)

Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3)

Mercury Seven

Mercury spacecraft

Metcalf, George

Military (the)

Missile gap

Missiles and Rockets (journal)

Mission Analysis branch

Mission control

Mission Control

astronauts and

during critical events

doctors in

emblem

flowers for

human factor in