We've never lost an American in space, we're sure as hell not gonna lose one on my watch! Failure is not an option. Gene Kranz More Quotes by Gene Kranz More Quotes From Gene Kranz 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 doing feel job team 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 celebrate moon today past 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 result generation experience people 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 me you learning relationship 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 great good working-together together
