![]() ![]() The best test of leadership is the response during times of adversity. In response, Kranz interjects "With all due respect sir, I believe this is going to be our finest hour." "This could be the worst disaster NASA has ever experienced." "I know what the problems are Henry," one of them says. Kranz listens in as two NASA directors discuss the low survival chances for the crippled spacecraft. One of my favorite scenes in the movie comes at one of the most pivotal moments. In 2000, NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz penned an autobiography using the film's tagline: Failure Is Not An Option. These events were well-documented, of course, most famously in the 1995 Ron Howard film, Apollo 13. Within a matter of hours, a series of critical real-time decisions not only had to be made, but solutions needed to be developed. ![]() However, the mission was aborted 56 hours in, due to an onboard explosion in the service module. Kranz at his console at the NASA Mission Control Center, May 30, 1965.Īpollo 13 was the seventh crewed mission in the Apollo space program and was to be the third to land on the moon. ![]()
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