Failure is not an Option: Mission Control from Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
by Gene Kranz

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Book Review: Useful insights but don't look for any great literary merit
Summary: 3 Stars

But don't look for any great literary merit in this book -- which, depite the aid of numerous profesional helpers, only clunks along for much of the time. The persistent patriotic tub-thumping began to pall to a non-American reader fairly shortly after it started but that having been said, it is a facet of the man which obviously strongly contributed to his drive and determination to do his job with nothing short of perfection as his goal -- and without displaying it Kranz would not have been doing himself justice.

The book is well worth a place on the bookshelves of the serious student of the space programme -- not least for some of the revealing between-the-lines implications of his colleagues' strengths and weaknesses. It will be interesting to compare Kranz's book with Chris Kraft's when -- and if -- that appears.

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