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I did everything by the numbers. I had checklists upon checklists. If I wasn't ahead of everybody on my team, I didn't feel I was doing my job.
~ Gene Kranz
Ahead
Did
Doing
Everybody
Everything
Feel
Had
Job
Numbers
Team
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I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.
~ Gene Kranz
Aviation
Coming
Faster
Felt
Had
Higher
Just
Next
Next Thing
Risk
Space
Thing
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I was the most emotional of the flight directors. Space really got me all honked up.
~ Gene Kranz
Directors
Emotional
Flight
Got
Me
Most
Really
Space
Up
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I was working as a flight director on the Gemini IX mission, and it seemed almost overnight I was picking up the responsibilities for the Apollo Program.
~ Gene Kranz
Almost
Apollo
Director
Flight
Gemini
Mission
Overnight
Picking
Program
Responsibilities
Seemed
Up
Working
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If you didn't like somebody, you just let 'em know it, and hopefully that would square 'em away. Not only would they critique me, get on my case, but basically it was that kind of relationship. It was always a learning, team-building relationship.
~ Gene Kranz
Always
Away
Basically
Case
Critique
Get
Hopefully
Just
Kind
Know
Learning
Like
Me
Only
Relationship
Somebody
Square
Would
You
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In particular, with my control team, I demanded the responsibilities to do all of the mission preparation, mission design, the writing of the procedures, the development of the handbooks.
~ Gene Kranz
Control
Demanded
Design
Development
Mission
Particular
Preparation
Procedures
Responsibilities
Team
Writing
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No way can you ever, ever, ever evidence confusion, concern, lack of understanding. You have to be in charge. You are the guy. You have to be cooler than cool, smarter than smart.
~ Gene Kranz
Charge
Concern
Confusion
Cool
Cooler
Ever
Evidence
Guy
Lack
Smart
Smarter
Than
Understanding
Way
You
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On the first flight test of any spacecraft, you're going to find surprises.
~ Gene Kranz
Any
Find
First
Flight
Going
Surprises
Test
You
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Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.
~ Gene Kranz
Carelessness
Incapacity
Neglect
Never
Tolerate
Will
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The C Mission was the first command and service module. The D Mission was the first mission involving a lunar module in a manned fashion and the command module, and the E would take this lunar module and the command module into a very high elliptical orbit, about 4,000-mile-high orbit.
~ Gene Kranz
About
Command
Fashion
First
High
Involving
Mission
Orbit
Service
Take
Very
Would
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There's an awful lot of future out there, and what you got to do, is you go to out and grab it, wrestle it to the ground, accept the challenges, and then decide. You've got the skills. You've got the knowledge. You've got the love, and you're capable of moving forward and making a great life yourself.
~ Gene Kranz
Accept
Awful
Awful Lot
Capable
Challenges
Decide
Forward
Future
Go
Got
Grab
Great
Great Life
Ground
Knowledge
Life
Lot
Love
Making
Moving
Moving Forward
Out
Skills
Then
Wrestle
You
Yourself
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Three decades ago, in a top story of the century, Americans placed six flags on the Moon. Today we no longer try for new and bold space achievements; instead, we celebrate the anniversaries of the past.
~ Gene Kranz
Achievements
American
Anniversary
Bold
Celebrate
Century
Decades
Flags
Instead
Longer
Moon
New
Past
Placed
Six
Space
Story
Three
Today
Top
Try
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Unfortunately as the result of the shutdown of the shuttle program, we lost an entire generation of people experience and capable of making risk judgment.
~ Gene Kranz
Capable
Entire
Experience
Generation
Judgment
Lost
Making
People
Program
Result
Risk
Shuttle
Unfortunately
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We've learned a lot by building the International Space Station, the good, the bad. But, the fact is is that working together as a team, unity aboard that space station, we can accomplish great things.
~ Gene Kranz
Accomplish
Bad
Building
Fact
Good
Great
Great Things
International
International Space Station
Learned
Lot
Space
Space Station
Station
Team
Things
Together
Unity
Working
Working Together
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