Gene Kranz - Failure Is Not an Option

Kraft and

legacy of

real-time role of

Mission Control Center

and Apollo 1 fire

for Gemini and Apollo

responsibilities of

security

Mission duration

Gemini and Apollo flights

increases in

record

Mission Planning and Analysis Division (MPAD)

Mission rules

regarding abort

Apollo 9

Apollo 11

for launch

regarding LM

redundancy

revised

techniques in developing

Mission Support Division

Mitchell

Molly Brown

Moon

Descartes Mountains

“far side” of

Fra Mauro

Hadley-Apennine region

Hadley Rille

Imbrium Basin

landing Americans on

Littrow

Mount Hadley

Oceanus Procellarum/Ocean of Storms

potential missions to far side of

in Russian space program

Taurus

see also Lunar exploration; etc.

Morris, Owen

Morse code

Moyers, Bill

MSFC

see Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)

Muehlberger, William

Mueller, George

Myers, Dale

Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Nance, Bob

NASA

see National Aeronautics and Space

Administration (NASA)

NASA Alumni League

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)

National Aeronautics and Space

Administration (NASA)

cancellation of final Apollo missions

civilian program

creation of

future of

hierarchy

joint venture with Russians

legal staff

management

news policy

as resource

time problem

see also Space Task Group

National Commission on Space

National Defense Education Act

National Space Act of 1958

Navigation systems

Nellis Air Force Base

Nieman

Nigeria tracking site

Nikolayev

Nixon, Richard

Noa (ship)

Norsworthy, Milt

North American Aviation (Co.)

Odyssey

O’Neill, Gerard

O’Neill, John

Operating procedures

Operations and procedures officer

Orange Team

Orbit trajection propagation

Orbital mechanics

Orbital missions

Osan Air Base

Osgood, Cathy

Pacific Airmotive

Page, George

Paine, Thomas

Parks, Oliver

Parks Air College

Passive thermal control (PTC)

maneuver

Patnesky, Andrew

Patrick AFB

Paules, Gran

Pavelka, Ed

Perssons, Al

Peters, Bill

Petrone, Rocco

Philco (Co.)

Phillips, Sam

Pioneering Mission for the Twenty-first-

Century America

Pioneering the Space Frontier

Plan X

Pneumatic tube (P-tube) system

Popovich, Pavel

Potassium intake

Powers, Shorty

Prescott, Warren

Presley, Will

Press

Press conferences

regarding Apollo

Apollo 11 mission

Press corps

Preston, G. Merritt

Public Affairs Office/officer

Puddy, Don

Quail flight test

Range safety officer (RSO)

Ransdell, Lois

Real time

Recovery teams

Red Team

Redstone missions

Redstone rocket

launches

MR-1

MR-3

Reed, Dave

Remote site teams

astronauts and

doctors

drilling

and EVA

Remote sites

CapComs

computer systems

Gemini missions

Rendezvous

Apollo missions

backup

Gemini missions

practicing

priority in space program

by Russians

Renick, Gary

Retropack

Retro controller (RETRO)

Retrofire

Rickover, Hyman

Risk

Risk judgment

Roberts, Tecwyn (Tec)

Rockets

failures

high-altitude research

Roll-and-pitch program

Roosa, Stu

Rose, Rodney

Rose Knot Victor tracking ship

Sabre jet

Saturn rockets

Saturn rockets

guidance and computer system

problems with

testing

Saturn V rocket

Saultz, Jim

Saxe, Ira

Saylor, Ralph

Schirra, Wally

Apollo 7

first manned CSM mission

Gemini 6

Mercury mission

Schmitt, Jack

Apollo 17

Schneider, William

Schweickart, Rusty

Science and Applications Directorate

Scientists

Scott, Dave

Apollo 9

Apollo 15

field geology trip

Gemini 8

Scott, Gary

Sealab

See, Elliott

Service module

Apollo 13

redesign of

Service propulsion system (SPS)

Shaffer, Phil

Shea, Joe

Shepard, Alan

Apollo 14

Cape CapCom

first manned mission

MCC

MR-3

walk on Moon

Sigma 7

Silver, Lee

Silver Team

Simpkinson, Scott

SimSup (simulation supervisor)

Apollo 11

MA-3

Simulation technology

Simulations

Apollo 9

Apollo 11

Gemini 7

Gemini 76

launch

Singing Wheel

Sjoberg, Sigurd

Skylab

Slayton, Donald K. (Deke)

and Apollo 13 crisis

Apollo program

coordinator of astronaut corps

irregular heartbeat

and remote site assignments

responsibilities of

Sousa, John Philip

Soviet Union

first space walk

joint missions (planned)

lead in space race

manned missions

record for endurance in space

space program

space race

Sputnik launch

Soyuz missions

Space hardware

Space program

cuts in

death in

expanding

failures in

future

military resources in

picketed

rendezvous priority in

success of

Space race

Space records (U.S.)

Space Shuttle

Space Task Group

engineers based at

growth of

Kranz joined

original members of

Space walk

see also EVA (extravehicular activity)

Spacecraft

television broadcasts from

Spacecraft Research Division

Spacecraft systems analysis

Spaceflight

see also Manned spaceflight

Spaceship Earth

SPAN (spacecraft analysis) team

Spence Air Base

Spider monkeys

Sputnik

Stafford, Tom

Apollo 10

Gemini 6

Gemini 9

Stay NoStay decisions

Stokes, Jim

Stored program commands (SPC)

Stough, Chuck

Stoval, Bill

Surveyor 3

Swigert, Jack

Systems controllers

Systems handbooks

Tainan Air Base

Tananarive site

Team building

Team chemistry

Teamwork

in crisis

space/ground

Technology

advancing

communications

failure of

fuel cell

simulation

tradeoffs in

Test and checkout procedure (TCP)

Test pilots

astronauts

Testing

all-up approach to

high-risk

Texas CapCom

Thomas, Albert

Thomas, Dylan

Thompson, Bob

Thompson, Floyd

Thorson, Dick

Thrust vector control (TVC)

Tiger Team

Tindall, Bill

“Tindallgrams”

Titan rockets

Titan II rocket

Titov, Gherman

Tomberlin, Jim

Tracking network voice system

Tracking ships

Tracking sites/stations

Africa

data transmission

digital systems

preparation for missions

Project Mercury

Southern Hemisphere

standard time for

Trans-Earth coast (TEC)

Trans-Earth injection (TEI)

Translunar coast (TLC)

Translunar injection (TLI)

Trench, The

Apollo 8

Apollo 11

Apollo 12

Apollo 13

Apollo 14

Apollo 16

Apollo 17

Apollo missions

Apollo simulations

“Captain Refsmmat”

Gemini 6

Gemini 8

Lunney ran

Trust

UHF-6 test

United States

State Department