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The book is about an American pioneer in the goal of reaching the Moon: Chris Kraft. As an Engineering employee of NASA when the space program begin, Mr. Kraft explains in detail how he helped designed and then operated NASA's Mission Control to be a functional part of every mission to troubleshoot any type of problem astronauts could or would have to being a successful flight. He talks about the detailed training of astronauts in simulations with flight controllers, and how young engineers fresh out of college in the 60's were placed in charge of operating the equipment and people to land an Apollo spacecraft with crew on the Moon. It is filled with historical stories, incidents, the trials, and how the loss of the Apollo 1 Crew on the pad in 1967, helped bring about a better spacecraft and its reliability for the goal of landing on the Moon before the 60's ended. A masterpiece of writing from the first NASA space 'geek' to the rest of us NASA space 'geeks'. A great read!Read full review
Excellent book by one of the main pioneers of the space race
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I seem to be reading/watching a lot of NASA lately. This book is from yet another perspective of the "Moon SHot" heydays of NASA, but goes back earlier to NACA, the predecessor of NASA, then goes forward. Chris Kraft pulls no punches in giving his opinions of the folk he worked with, as well as where he feels NASA is today (showing more signs of a typical government bureaucacy, vs the goal-driven institution it was then). A good read if you are into the space program.
the story of putting together the american man in space program told by one of its best known architects is a great ride.
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Good read and I grew up during those times.
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