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I loved every bit of this book. It really humanizes the great early works of NASA. It seems like everyone thinks scientists are some kinds of robots; they are inaccessible and unfeeling, but seeing the stories through the eyes of Gene Kranz really bring them home.
This book chronicles the history of Gene's life, as well as NASA missions with a first-person view of everything from the Mercury program to Apollo and a bit beyond.
There are also some technical parts in this book, which I loved! He ta ...more
This book chronicles the history of Gene's life, as well as NASA missions with a first-person view of everything from the Mercury program to Apollo and a bit beyond.
There are also some technical parts in this book, which I loved! He ta ...more
A great story about Kranz himself as well as the Apollo program. His narrative had that "pinch me, I can't believe I fortunate enough to be in this position." Humble and insightful.
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If you're interested in the Apollo project, this book, and Chris Kraft's, are excellent accounts of how it was all put together. They're very good books and I recommend them--Kraft's first, since he precedes Kranz by a few years.
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I'm more than halfway through this book, but because I was reading it while studying for the bar exam, I can't seem to bring myself to finish it. Every time I pick it up, I have bar exam flashbacks. Very unfortunate.
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