Gene Kranz
Gene Kranz
Eugene Francis "Gene" Kranzis a retired NASA Flight Director and manager. Kranz served as a Flight Director, the successor to NASA founding Flight Director Chris Kraft, during the Gemini and Apollo programs, and is best known for his role in directing the successful Mission Control team efforts to save the crew of Apollo 13, which later became the subject story of a major motion picture of the same name, in which he was portrayed by actor Ed Harris, and serving...
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Date of Birth17 August 1933
Gene Kranz quotes about
alligators arrived cape carved good looked newly oil roads
In 1960, ... the Cape looked like an oil field, with towering structures, dirt, and asphalt roads newly carved out of the palmetto scrub. The alligators were reluctantly surrendering to the onslaught of newly arrived civilization. If you didn't have a good sense of direction, you were in trouble.
attitude best-effort errors
To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort
team winning victory
There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.
team moon technology
We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible technologies. But what was most important, we'd created the teams, what I call the human factor. People who were energized by a mission.
space failure-is-not-an-option
Failure is not an option.
achievement risk
There is no achievement without risk.