Buffering the outside world from the technical decisions these guys had to make. Part, peoplein like kraft had the same experiences you had, wouldnt you say as a formal as a former flight director he knew . Washristopher columbus entirely appropriate for this guy. Pioneer in Mission Control. He launched each one of the mercury missions. But he was the mentor, teacher and tutor for this young generation who became known as Mission Controllers. He set the mold for everything that would be done thereafter and in particular, he set the and for the flight director the flight director being able to take any action necessary for crew safety and mission success. He had done that in the beauty of the thing was even though he physically had left the console, wase he knew his job now to give them the confidence to make the technical decisions and he was going to broker whatever political fallout might occur. A spectacular man. He was the interface between the top level and politics. I found that
Jean kranz had a prolific career as a nasa flight and Missions Operation director. He was acting flight director when the apollo 11 astronauts landed on the moon, and as lead flight director of the apollo 13 mission, he had a significant role in guiding three astronauts back to earth after an explosion on the spacecraft. This is part one of a oral history interview landing flight director, werent you. You were in charge of that. You took part in the whole thing. lets go over apollo n unidentified speaker 11. A big project. Theres many things that stand out. A person says where were you when . I sure had an awful lot of great breaks in my life. I mean, whether they be in college, whether they be in flying airplanes, but one of the ones that i remember that is related to apollo 11 in a very direct fashion is the day i got the assignment to do the landing phase. Cliff charlesworth was the lead flight director and one of the responsibilities of the lead flight director is to identify which
24yearold daughter in a 737max crash testified with pictures of Crash Victims on display. Boeings apologies to cameras have not been apologies to the families. I do personally apologize to the families. Reporter boeing c. E. O. Dennis mull enberg made that tv apology exclusively to nor a odonnell in may. We feel terrible about these accidents and we apologized for what happened. Reporter today boeing announced it would give 50 million to the families of those killed, part of a fund it created earlier this month. Some families called that a p. R. Stunt. Paul thinks instead boeing executives, including the c. E. O. , should face criminal charges. And the 737max should be scrapped entirely. I would like to see the plane not fly again. Kris joins us now. Kris, do you think that 737max is ever going to fly again . Reporter norah, the 737max is almost seen as too big to fail. It is too important to boeings bottom line and thus the larger u. S. Economy, and too important to several of the wor
Experience. Sit back, relax and get ready for liftoff. Okay. Are there any changes to the schedule, arnie . Line item 7 which is shown for all day, the tank pressurization test will not start until 1300. When do you want to run the leak check . First, are you going to extend that out to five hours by cutting it off in the front end of the storage tank . Negative. Its 3 hours and 32 minutes until man begins the greatest adventure in its history. If all goes well, apollo 11 astronaut, armstrong, collins and aldrin are to lift off from pad 39a out there on the voyage man always has dreamed about. It is now, before they go, as their gleaming vehicle sits poised and peaceful out there, that there is time, if only briefly in this busy morning, to think of those three men and the burdens and the hopes that they carry on behalf of all mankind. The vastness, the blackness, the cold of space, they will carry the pledge made eight years ago by president kennedy, to put a man on the moon and bring
we are set. houston, apollo 11, we ve completed our maneuvers. six hours, 16 minutes. velocity. the distance from earth, 27,938 nautical miles. now charlie duke and jean kranz and his flight controllers preparing to take over the responsibility from cliff charlesworth team. we ll be ready to copy in a minute. the spacecraft will be placed in the thermal control mode. it will be rotating on its x axis to maintain proper temperature balance within the spacecraft.