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Gene Kranz titled his 2000 memoir Failure Is Not An Option. [4] Kranz chose the line as the title because he liked the way it reflected the attitude of mission control. [5] In the book, he states that it was a creed that we [NASA's Mission Control Center] all lived by: "Failure is not an option".
John W. Aaron (born 1943) is a former NASA engineer and was a flight controller during the Apollo program.He is widely credited with saving the Apollo 12 mission when it was struck by lightning soon after launch, and also played an important role during the Apollo 13 crisis.
Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond Gene Kranz, Simon and Schuster, 2000, ISBN 978-0-7432-0079-0 Lost Moon by James Lovell ( ISBN 0-671-53464-5 ) The Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space by Gene Cernan ( ISBN 0-312-19906-6 )
There are also differences in the control positions because of differences in the operation of the two. The following is a list of those flight controllers located in Mission Control Center – Houston. There are several other control centers which house dozens of other flight controllers that support the vastly complex vehicle.
The Mission Control Center of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Russian: Центр управления полётами), also known by its acronym ЦУП ("TsUP") is located in Korolyov, near the RKK Energia plant. It contains an active control room for the ISS.
The Apollo primary guidance, navigation, and control system (PGNCS, pronounced pings) was a self-contained inertial guidance system that allowed Apollo spacecraft to carry out their missions when communications with Earth were interrupted, either as expected, when the spacecraft were behind the Moon, or in case of a communications failure.
The spacecraft physically connected to the station but mission control delayed hard docking by over 4 hours while working to reduce the risks of failed antenna hitting elements of Zvezda service module. [12] To ensure it will not interfere during undocking, several attempts of retracting the antenna took place during two spacewalks of ...
The Gemini 8 mission was dramatized in episode 1 "Can We Do This?", of the 1998 HBO miniseries From the Earth to the Moon, and in the 2018 Armstrong biopic, First Man. The story of the mission is told from the point of view of a fictional mission controller in the TV series For All Mankind (2021, Season 2, Episode 8).