Gene Kranz
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NASA
SPACE WEEK: Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
The book by Gene Kranz, best known for being the mission control commander during Apollo 13, published his memior in 2009 and is available in Hardcover, Paperback, Kindle and Audio Book form. It details the career of Gene Kranz from the birth of NASA (and the start of his career) clear through Apollo 13 and his retirement. It’s a great…
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NASA
Be a Flight Director: NASA Accepting Applications for Mission Control Leaders
How would you like to sit at the helm of human spaceflight, responsible for the success of missions and the highly trained teams of engineers and scientists that make them possible? NASA is hiring new flight directors for just this job at its mission control at Johnson Space Center in Houston. “Flight directors play a critical role in the success…
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