Word: kranz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficulties caused a little soul-searching among NASA officials. Skylab Program Director William C. Schneider, for one, vigorously rejected the idea that the problems might have been caused by sloppy manufacturing or lax quality control resulting from NASA's recent economies. Chief Flight Controller Eugene Kranz agreed, but then added: "We'll never know until we get the darn things down and look at them." There was one performance that no one could fault: a spider named Arabella, on board Skylab for a biological experiment, accommodated to space flight within only a day or two, learning to spin...
...Force flight school, and has spent countless hours on field trips everywhere from Iceland to Hawaii teaching fellow astronauts how to spot and select geologically significant rocks. He worked closely with NASA scientists in devising scoops, shovels and other tools for the moon. Says NASA Flight Director Gene Kranz: "If anyone deserves a flight, it is Jack Schmitt...
...preliminary study of the telemetry tapes has already shown that oxygen pressure in one of the tanks rapidly increased 90 seconds before the accident. Unfortunately, the rise was not observed on the ground, Flight Director Gene Kranz told TIME Correspondent Leo Janos last week. Reason: So much data streams into Houston from a spacecraft that flight controllers monitor only a certain number of critical functions at any single moment; the signals for the others are simply stored on tape for later examination. Furthermore, Kranz explained, even if some hawk-eyed observer had spotted the wild pressurization, his first incredulous reaction...
...serious plight than Apollo 13's crew did. "We were only a few feet away," Lovell told a televised news conference, "but the people on the ground had a lot more information via telemetry than we had concerning pressures and temperatures and possible causes of the accident." Kranz's and Lovell's comments underscore the terrible complexities and dangers of space flight. The hard fact is, there are almost unlimited possibilities for equipment failures aboard spacecraft far from earth...
Finally, after an hour in the hot seat, Kranz yielded to Lunney and his "black team." Calm and unrumpled in the white vest he wears on duty, Kranz told his controllers: "Look, we've got a fresh team here. Let's get off the consoles and let them take over. They might come up with some different ideas, and we'll go back and look at the data and analyze it and see if we can find anything that might help...