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Eugene F. Kranz Quotes

born 1933 United States

Eugene Francis "Gene" Kranz (born August 17, 1933) is an American aerospace engineer, a former fighter pilot, and a retired NASA Flight Director and manager. Kranz served as NASA's second Chief Flight Director, directing missions of the Gemini and Apollo programs, including the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11.

United States
Aerospace engineers
Aviators

Also known as: Eugene Kranz, Gene Kranz

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Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do.

Competent means we will never take anything for granted.

Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.

These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.

I believe we need a long-term national commitment to explore the universe. And I believe this is an essential investment in the future of our nation — and our beautiful, but environmentally challenged planet.

We had risen to probably one of the greatest challenges in history, put a man on the moon in the decade. We'd created incredible technologies. But what was most important, we'd created the teams, what I call the human factor.

Failure is not an option.

Misattributed Statement attributed to him in the film Apollo 13 (1995)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Eugene F. Kranz (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.