Failure Is Not an Option | movie | 2003 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

The Space Race comes alive through the eyes of the ultimate insider - retired NASA Mission Control Flight Director Gene  | dG1fWlRGSG54dTAzVG8

Transcript

00:00 [ Background noise ]

00:07 >> They took man into space, but never left the earth.

00:14 They flew every flight from right here on the ground.

00:21 >> We had to pull missions literally out of the fire,

00:24 make the right things happen, and bring these crews back home.

00:28 >> They are the men of Mission Control, engineers who took the dream of space flight and made it reality.

00:35 >> That's one small step for man.

00:37 >> You just didn't say, "We can't do this, we can't do that." You made it happen.

00:42 >> Flight Director Gene Kranz and the men of Mission Control tell their story for the first time.

00:48 >> Now, downward, no go.

00:49 >> I almost shook my head in fear.

00:52 >> We were losing our oxygen.

00:54 >> We had a problem.

00:55 >> The CIA came rushing in.

00:56 >> No one was to talk about it, no one was to know about it.

00:59 >> They were trapped.

01:01 >> You cannot operate in this room unless you believe you're Superman,

01:06 and whatever happens, you're capable of solving the problem.

01:09 [ Background noise ]