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Failure is (not) an option

Posted by: cerwin | November 16, 2008 |
Gene Kranz in action at NASA.

Gene Kranz at NASA.

“FAILURE is not an option.”

So goes the famous line NASA flight director Eugene “Gene” F. Kranz uttered to flight controllers at Mission Control in Houston on April 13, 1970 after declaring:

“We’ve never lost an American in space and we’re sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch!”

Actor Ed Harris said it well when he played the role of the person, who brought Neil Armstrong to the moon and saved the crew of Apollo 13, in the 1995 movie.

The line is typically American, truly western and very results-oriented.

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