Comments on: Lessons in Manliness from Gene Kranz

By: Lessons in Manliness from Gene Kranz - Welcome to my world.

Lessons in Manliness from Gene Kranz - Welcome to my world. — Tue, 04 May 2010 14:54:50 +0000

[...] of Manliness has a great write-up of Gene Kranz, Flight Director of Apollo 11, Apollo 13, and many others. Go read it. (It builds character.) [...]

By: Colin Pesyna

Colin Pesyna — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 17:35:55 +0000

I’m glad that you liked the post, Jean. I hope that your father enjoys reading it!

By: Jean Kranz

Jean Kranz — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:28:35 +0000

Was browsing through my facebook page and links and happened upon your website. Nice tribute. Good write-up. Actually, Hollywood coined the phrase during the filming of Apollo 13. They took what he actually said and condensed it into a shorter sense of his intent. Enjoyed the read. I am going to have to share it with him.
Jean M. Kranz – “Jeannie”

By: Sergant

Sergant — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:13:52 +0000

Thanks/ Great/ Makes life easier to remember that there are things more complicated than that you could imagine in daily life.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:34:00 +0000

Thanks for this article! I really didn’t know anything about this great man before reading this. And I really appreciate the link to those Youtube videos-they were great. I kept saying I would just watch one part more but then I couldn’t stop and watched the whole thing.

By: Dave Massey

Dave Massey — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:06:24 +0000

What a guy and what a team – inspirational!!!

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:24:11 +0000

As an employ of NASA I had the honor to meet Mr. Kranz at an employee event a couple of years ago. He talked mostly of the Apollo 13 mission and our new endeavor with the Ares I rocket system. He is a great speaker and still rocks the flattop.

By: MIKEY

MIKEY — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:31:48 +0000

And let us not forget that it was the Honorable President John F Kennedy who initiated the USA’s first place landing on the moon. He had his sights first set on Mars but had to settle for the Moon. I think my girlfriend and I spent like 18 hours in front of a black and white tv waiting for that first step…. and then we heard about this little art and music festival being held in upstate NY at a place called Woodstock!

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:28:22 +0000

Cool post.

Worth noting Gene Kranz never said “failure is not an option”… The line came from the movie Apollo 13. He just liked how it embodied the spirit of those who worked on bring Apollo 13 to a safe return and adopted it for his book.

Movie theatrics while historically inaccurate sometimes do match the spirit.

By: Trish Lewis

Trish Lewis — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:23:26 +0000

I was ‘there’ 40 years ago. I was a 10 year girl GLUED to the TV with millions others. I remember it VERY well. Chills ran through me, and I truly believed in my lifetime we’d be living on the Moon and exploring Mars. I still believe it’ll happen, that it’s just a matter of wanting it bad it enough and making the money available. I still struggle with the fact so many here on earth need that money for just survival here and balancing it all. That said, I now work for a federal agency and in my 20 years there have come to know a former mission control tech who still, to this day, when on the phone with me (he works for a ‘mission control’ of sorts for my agency’s technical center) sounds like he’s at mission control, talking in his business-like monotone voice, which makes me smile…