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Failure is not an option!
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Failure
Space
Failure Is Not An Option
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Failiure is not an option.
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Motivational
Success
Failure
Nasa
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There is no achievement without risk.
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Achievement
Risk
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Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect.
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Carelessness
Incapacity
Neglect
Tolerate
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I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade.
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Parades
Tape
Thinking
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On the first flight test of any spacecraft, you're going to find surprises.
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Flight
Spacecraft
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I don't care what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.
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Apollo
Can Do
Care
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I was the most emotional of the flight directors. Space really got me all honked up.
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Flight
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I just felt that space was the next thing coming in aviation. It was higher, faster. It had the risk.
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Aviation
Faster
Higher
Risk
Next Thing
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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.
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Space
Hell
Watches
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To recognize that the greatest error is not to have tried and failed, but that in trying, we did not give it our best effort
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Attitude
Best Effort
Errors
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There is no such thing as good enough. You, your team, and your equipment must be the best. That is how you will win victories.
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Team
Victory
Winning
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You can not operate in this room unless you believe that you are Superman, and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.
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Believe
Problem
Rooms
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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.
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Numbers
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I was working as a flight director on the Gemini IX mission, and it seemed almost overnight I was picking up the responsibilities for the Apollo Program.
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Apollo
Flight
Program
Mission
Overnight
Picking
Responsibilities
Seemed
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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.
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Judgment
Shuttle
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No way can you ever, ever, ever evidence confusion, concern, lack of understanding. You have to be in charge. You are the guy. You have to be cooler than cool, smarter than smart.
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Concern
Confusion
Evidence
Smart
Understanding
Charge
Cooler
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In particular, with my control team, I demanded the responsibilities to do all of the mission preparation, mission design, the writing of the procedures, the development of the handbooks.
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Preparation
Procedures
Demanded
Responsibilities
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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.
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Accomplish
Great Things
International Space Station
Unity
Working Together
Space Station
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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.
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Anniversary
Celebrate
Decades
Flags
Moon
Achievements
Bold
Placed
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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.
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Critique
Square
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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. People who were energized by a mission.
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Technology
Moon
Team
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The C Mission was the first command and service module. The D Mission was the first mission involving a lunar module in a manned fashion and the command module, and the E would take this lunar module and the command module into a very high elliptical orbit, about 4,000-mile-high orbit.
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Involving
Orbit
Manned
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There's an awful lot of future out there, and what you got to do, is you go to out and grab it, wrestle it to the ground, accept the challenges, and then decide. You've got the skills. You've got the knowledge. You've got the love, and you're capable of moving forward and making a great life yourself.
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Knowledge
Future
Awful
Capable
Challenges
Moving
Moving Forward
Skills
Life Love Future
Yourself
Life Love Knowledge
Lot
Then
Accept
Awful Lot
Forward
Got
Great Life
Ground
Making
Wrestle
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Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.
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Safety
White
Writing
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From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills.
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Mean
Responsibility
Skills
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Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.
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Design
Safety
Should Have
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