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