The most amazing thing about Apollo 13 is the fact that NASA analyzed and fixed the problem and launched Apollo 14 only nine months later. They did this using only telemetry records and paperwork since the failed hardware burned up on reentry. The shows a can-do spirit, the lesson being to pull yourself together after a failure and try again.

Dan N8FGV

------ Original Message ------ Received: Sun, 05 Sep 2021 01:55:25 PM EDT From: Jean Marc Momple jean.marc.momple@gmail.com To: Robert Bruninga bruninga@usna.eduCc: saguaroastro saguaroastro@cox.net, Felix Paez EA4GQS ea4gqs@gmail.com, AMSAT BB amsat-bb@amsat.org Subject: [AMSAT-BB] Re: Help receiving GENESIS satellites - (and Apollo)

Bob,

The Apollo 13 story has been a greet lesson for me, basically how to to make

the best when all goes wrong and I used this example many times in my professional life to demonstrate how to cope in crisis situation. Leadership and down to earth logical solutions. But most important in these case of crisis is have a strong leadership and a captain on board.

About failures and learning from same I guess the SpaceX/Elon Musk

experiences these days speaks more that any other ones.

My one cent additional input.

73

Jean Marc (3B8DU)

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On Sep 5, 2021, at 9:39 PM, Robert Bruninga bruninga@usna.edu wrote:

I'm reading the book "Failure is not an option" about the history of the Mission Command Center and all the flight controllers for NASA. Wow is it great reading.

Author is Gene Kranz, the flight controller for Mercury, Gemini, and

Apollo

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as well as Apollo-13

And YES, it is all about learning from the past to be ready for the next

one.

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Bob, WB4APR