by Gene Kranz
F-100 Super Sabres
Faget, Max
Failure
not an option
Faith 7
Falcon
Fendell, Ed
Fenner, Will
Field geology trip
Fire-in-the-hole
“Firefly” phenomenon
Flight Control
Air Force officers assigned to
beer mug
systems team
toughness and competence
turning point in
Flight Control Branch
Flight Control Division (FCD)
Experiment Packages
Kranz made chief of
operations branches
Simulation Branch
Flight Control Operations Branch
Flight control team
Apollo 11
emblem
training of
Flight directors
colors retired
debates among
dual
honorary title
honored for Apollo 13, crisis resolution
identifying colors
job description
lead
mandate
need for information
pre-mission period
and NASA management
new generation of
press conferences
role of
training
Flight Dynamics
Flight dynamics team
see also Trench, The
Flight Operations
Flight Operations Directorate
Flight Operations Division (FOD)
Flight Readiness Review
Apollo 11
Flight rules
Flight surgeons
and EVA
Flight tests
manned
Four-inch Flight
Frank, Pete
Freedom 7
Freeman, Ted
Frenchman’s Flat
Friendship 7
Fucci, Jim
Fuel cells
Apollo 12
Apollo 13
“Funnies” (anomalies, glitches)
Gagarin, Yuri
Gardner, Spencer
Garman, Jack
Gemini 1
Gemini 2
Gemini 3
Gemini 4
Gemini 5
Gemini 6
second launch attempt
Gemini 7
Gemini 8
Gemini 9
Gemini 9A
second launch attempt
Gemini 10
Gemini 76
Gemini missions
duration of
first manned
Gemini program
human factor in
leadership of
Gemini spacecraft
German rocket scientists
Gilruth, Robert
became director of Manned Spacecraft Center
Gimbal lock
Glenn, John
as CapCom
orbital flight
Go NoGo
criteria for
Go NoGo decisions
Apollo 11
Apollo 13 reentry
Gemini-Titan
Mercury-Atlas 6
Mercury-Atlas 9
Go NoGo mission rules
EVA
Go NoGo points
Goddard, Robert
Goddard Space Flight Center
“Goddard voice”
Goett, Harry
Gold Team
Goldin, Daniel
Gordon, Dick
Apollo 12
Gordon Highlanders
Green Team
Greene, Jay
Greenwich mean time
Griffin, Gerry
field geology trip
flight director
handing over to new generation of flight directors
Griffith, Gerry
Grissom, Virgil I. (Gus)
Apollo 1
CapCom at Mission Control
death of
first manned Gemini mission
Gemini-Titan 3
second manned Mercury mission
Gruby, Chuck
Grumman (Co.)
Guaymas, Mexico
Guidance, navigation, control (GNC)
engineers
Hage, George
Haise, Freddo (Fred)
Apollo 13
CapCom, Apollo 14
Ham (chimpanzee)
Hamner, Scott
Hangar S
Hannigan, Jim
Harlan, Charlie
Hatcher, John
Havenstein, Paul
Hawaii CapCom
Hawaii site
Heat shield
Apollo 13
testing
Hibbert, John
Hill, Arthur
Hirt, Al
Hodge, John
and Apollo 1 fire
Apollo program
Blue Team
led Flight Control Division
flight director for Gemini and Apollo
Kranz deputy to
in management
and NASA planning
and organization of Manned
Spacecraft Center
Hofbraugarten
Holloman Air Force Base
Holloway, Tommy
Horizon sensors
Houston
Flight Controller Alley
relocation to
Houston Mission Control Center (MCC-H)
Houston Petroleum Center
Human factor
Hunt, Shirley
Hunter, Dan
Huntsville, Alabama
Huss, Carl
Hutchinson, Neil
I’Anson, Jim
Irwin, Jim
Apollo 15
Iwo Jima (aircraft carrier)
Johnson, Lyndon
Johnson, Paul
Judo
Kamman, Jack
Kapryan, Walt
Kearsarge (carrier)
Kelly, Tom
Kennedy, John F.
assassinated
phone call to astronaut
vow to land man on Moon
Kennedy, Robert F.
Kennedy, Ted
Kennedy Space Center
launch team
Kerwin, Joe
King, Martin Luther
Kirkpatrick, Jeane
Kitty Hawk
Komarov, Vladimir
Koos, Dick
Korea
Korean War
Kraft, Chris
and Apollo 1 fire
and final Apollo missions
flight director: Apollo
flight director: Mercury
flight director: MR-3
FOD chief
Gemini program
head of four divisions
Kranz’s relationship with
legacy of
promotion to MSC director
Kranz, Gene
Air Force flight training/pilot
career, 13
career: acting division chief for flight control
career: Apollo program
career: assistant flight director
career: Chief of Flight Control Division (FCD)
career: deputy to Hodge for Flight
Control Division
career: flight director
career: lead flight director
career: Mercury Control
early life, education
family, children
mentors
vests
Kranz, Helen
Kranz, Leo Peter
Kranz, Louise
Kranz, Marta Cadena
courtship and marriage
vests for husband
Kranz, Peter Joseph
Kundel, Keith
Kyle, Howard
Lackland Air Force Base
Lake Champlain (airc
raft carrier)
Landing and Recovery Division
Langley Air Force Base
Langley Research Center
Laughlin Air Force Base
Layton, Al
Leadership/leaders
of Kraft
Leonov, Aleksei
Lewis, Chuck (Skinny)
Ley, Willy
Liberty Bell 7
Liebergot, Sy
Life magazine
Lindbergh, Charles
Littrow, Johann von
Llewellyn, John
and Captain Refsmmat
and Gemini missions
judo
reassigned
Loden, Hal
Loss of signal (LOS)
Lousma, Jack
Lovell, Jim
Apollo 8
Apollo 13
Gemini 7
Low, George
Lunar exploration
Lunar gravity
Lunar landing
Apollo 11
Apollo 15
Apollo 16
first
reasons to abort
rehearsal for
second
Lunar mission plan
Lunar missions
alternate
phases of
Lunar module (LM)
Apollo 5
Apollo 9
Apollo 11
Apollo 12
Apollo 13
Apollo 14
Apollo 15
Apollo 16
Apollo 17
“funnies” in
modifications in
orbital flight test
tests
see also Computers: lunar module
Lunar orbit
Lunar orbit injection (LOI) maneuver
Lunar program
end of
Lunar Rover
Lunar science/scientists
Lunney, Glynn
flight director for Gemini and Apollo
moved into management
McCall, Bob
McDivitt, Jim
McDonnell Aircraft (Co.)
engineers
McDowell
Macmillan, Harold
Maloney, Jim
“Man in space project”
Manned Spacecraft Center (Houston)
digitalized control center
doubled in size
Gilruth became director of
organization of, for future space programs
Manned spaceflight
preparation for
public mandate for
Maroon Team
Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
Massachusetts Insitutute of Technology
Mathews, Chuck
Matthews, Fred
Mattingly, Ken
Apollo 16
Mayer, John
MCC
see Mercury Control Center (MCC)
“Mechanical man”
Medical Research and Operations Directorate
Medical specialists
Mercury-Atlas 1
exploded in flight
Mercury-Atlas 3
Mercury-Atlas 4
Mercury-Atlas 5
Mercury-Atlas 6
Mercury-Atlas 7
Mercury-Atlas 9
Mercury-Atlas missions
Mercury capsule
attitude control systems
escape system
pocket checklist
Mercury Control Center (MCC)
and Apollo 1
assistant flight director (AFD)
and astronauts
CapComs
communications with
crisis center atmosphere
developed by Kraft
lunch wagon
manned missions
MA-3
MR-1
MR-3
new software
original team
Powers voice of
voice and Teletype communications
Mercury missions
final
Mercury program
booster rockets
closed out
communications system
debriefings
delays in
end of
final party
first orbital mission
flight rules
remote site CapComs
second manned mission
second orbital mission
team professionalism
tracking stations
trajectory design
Mercury-Redstone 1 (MR-1)
Mercury-Redstone 3 (MR-3)
Mercury Seven
Mercury spacecraft
Metcalf, George
Military (the)
Missile gap
Missiles and Rockets (journal)
Mission Analysis branch
Mission control
Mission Control
astronauts and
during critical events
doctors in
emblem
flowers for
human factor in
Kraft and
legacy of
real-time role of
Mission Control Center
and Apollo 1 fire