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Failure is not an option is the tag line of the 1995 film Apollo 13.It is spoken in the film by Ed Harris, who portrayed Gene Kranz, and said [2] [3]. We've never lost an American in space; we're sure as hell not going to lose one on my watch!
Apollo 13 (April 11–17, 1970) was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and would have been the third Moon landing.The craft was launched from Kennedy Space Center on April 11, 1970, but the landing was aborted after an oxygen tank in the service module (SM) exploded two days into the mission, disabling its electrical and life-support system.
In the case of Apollo 18 the crew was probably the Apollo 15 backup crew: [5] Richard F. Gordon Jr. (commander (CDR)) Vance D. Brand (Command Module pilot (CMP)) Harrison Schmitt (Lunar Module pilot (LMP)) When Apollo 18 was canceled, Schmitt was moved up to Apollo 17 under pressure from the scientific community, replacing Joe Engle. Schmitt, a ...
See and Bassett attempted to land their T-38 at Lambert Field in St. Louis, Missouri, in bad weather, and crashed into the adjacent McDonnell Aircraft factory, where they were going for simulator training for their Gemini 9 flight. [25] [26] Fire during spacecraft test 27 January 1967: Apollo 1: Virgil "Gus" Grissom Ed White Roger B. Chaffee
Eiermann was supposed to create the cachet for the special covers he had proposed, but time ran short and Scott did it instead. He used the Apollo 15 mission patch to create the design, and gave it to Collins of the Mission Support Office. Collins arranged with the Brevard Printing Company of Cocoa, Florida for the design to be reproduced on ...
Apollo’s ‘golden age’: CEO Marc Rowan is already supercharging profits—and has a strategy to turn the Wall Street heavyweight into a $1 trillion business Shawn Tully September 22, 2023 at ...
‘Bad Things Happen In War’ Until now, the most common wound of war was thought to be PTSD, an involuntary reaction to a remembered life-threatening fear. In combat, the physical response to fear and danger – hyper-alertness, the flush of adrenaline that energizes muscles – is necessary for survival.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.