Failure is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

This memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight d…

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