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- Apollo 13 - Failure Is Not an Option: Aaron (Loren Dean) insists the module conserve its power; Kranz (Ed Harris) is determined not to lose an American in space.
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This Hollywood drama is based on the events of the Apollo 13 lunar mission, astronauts Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks), Fred Haise (Bill Paxton) and Jack Swigert (Kevin Bacon) find everything going according to plan after leaving Earth's orbit. However, when an oxygen tank explodes, the scheduled moon landing is called off. Subsequent tensions within the crew and numerous technical problems threaten both the astronauts' survival and their safe return to Earth.
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Cast: Clint Howard, Ed Harris, Loren Dean
Director: Ron Howard
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How Ed Harris didn't walk away with an Oscar for this role is beyond me, he is captivating in every scene he's in.
I know, I could see this clip being run on Oscar night and then hearing “…and the Oscar goes to…”
Braveheart cleaned up that year I think. They never stood a chance
That year Kevin Spacey won for playing Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects.
Ed Harris deserves Óscar for this, but Kevin Spacey and Brad Pitt were brilliants on their roles too. And there is one winner Only....
Agree, his performance was gripping and convincing, leadership-example worthy - I got to know the actor Ed Harris in this role, and what an introduction that was!
I recently saw a commercial for a Vacuum cleaner that mention it only used 11 amps, and I thought of this scene.
I reckon that the vacuum cleaner runs on 110VAC. It would take much more than 11 Amps at 28VDC that the Apollo power buses supplied, if it all it could.
Fast forward 40 years, and we can, indeed, run a vacuum cleaner on 12 amps, lol
Much like the movie John Aaron pointing out that the Command Module has to draw no more than the power needed to operate an original Mr. Coffee coffeemaker (which in itself wasn't around in 1970).
this was back in the 70s also
@The Fandom MenaceBack then, Coke cans were big hunks of steel, instead of the cheap tin cans they have today, what a joke!
1:01 "That's the deal?"
Remember; leaders should lead, but they should also listen.
Hands holding pen cut to hands on side :D
And accept they don't know everything.
That's why Ripley is the greatest.
There’s no point having the best team in the world if you don’t listen to them. Excellent team and excellent leadership. Kranz is an example to us all.
Theomite, I've just been through Ripley! it's a dump!!
I liked that last quote: "We've never lost an American in space, and we sure as hell aren't gonna lose one on my watch. Failure is not an option!"
Yeah strong words.....and then Columbia happened.....I wonder if they even tried to think out a solution?
@@whiteeaglewarrior Challenger exploded 17 years or so before Columbia happened.
@@possiblepilotdeviation5791 Anno...watched it on TV happen at school....
@@possiblepilotdeviation5791 Challenger wasn't in space either. The first Americans actually lost in space were on Columbia.
flyboy152 Columbia wasn’t technically in space, either. The only people who died in space were three Russian guys.
By the way, that quote was created for the film.
Ed Harris crushes it in this movie.
Ed Harris crushes it in every film
Ed Harris does crush it.....But the guy that played John Aaron sucks!
When everything goes wrong....a, Grumman will get you home !
And due to this performance he was rightfully nominated at the 68th Academy Awards for best supporting actor.
Freddy Black they didn’t call it “Grumman Ironworks” for nothing!!
"You can't run a vacuum-cleaner on 12 amps, John!"
No matter how many times I see this scene, I laugh my ass off at that bit.
It's a funny line but a terrible analogy, a vacuum cleaner is an insanely wasteful machine for what it tries to do, so much is lost to heat and sound. The machines on Apollo 13 on the other hand would have been designed to peak efficiency.
Funny thing: I'm studying for the ASVAB, and when I'm in the electronics section, sometimes I'm not sure I crunched the numbers right on an Ohm's law problem, but if it has something do with with current (amperes) I remember this quote and get it right almost every time.
It's a good way to judge how many amps a smaller device might need, which is usually what the question is about. Vacuum cleaners can now run on 12 amps, but a coffee maker does not use 12 amps.
lhy2209 yes but that's not the point, the point is to make it relatable to the general public watching the movie. Not everyone knows anything about a LM battery, but almost everyone knows what a vacuum cleaner does. And not many people worry about how inefficient a vacuum cleaner is :)
Exactly. That line is more or less a 4th wall point to the audience. To give an impression of what kind of insanity they were dealing with. Most people including me watching that scene was like: How much power are we talking about here? Can't be that much. This is NASA. - '...vacuum cleaner..' Me: *Oh shit. lol*
Funny thing about the noise: most vacuum cleaners are *designed* to be noisy. Because most consumers think "louder = more powerful". :P
A true example of a leader, calm and willing to work until an issue is solved.
Also able to motivate other people, saying what they must do themselves and what's at stake.
Now it will be "how could you assume my gender" " I need safe space"
Some motherly force maybe wanting to help assist & consider basics & relational humanity & order or who why where what? I never wanted neither should they be in possession of privilege to play lively games for it’s not intend to for who u want relived where & why it’s unreasonable & diversified concourses does address unnecessary stupidity beyond your imaginary if then analysis & forgetting ur basics didn’t upgrade from day 1.
Kranz did an amazing job
@@sunilnagoji weird philosopher
This is seriously a great movie. It dumbs things down just enough for someone like me to understand what’s going on without compromising quality and accuracy. Ed Harris owns this role.
we got turn everything off or they die up there that's the deal
I had the privilege of listening to this man tell the story in person. To this day I have never heard a public speaker inspire and motivate a room as much as he did.
white privilege
@@xcoldbloom 😂 This is why I hate people. Always assuming racism.
Hi. I also had the pleasure of listening to Mr Kranz. He spoke for about 90 minutes in front of roughly 500 people and you could have heard a pin drop. Everybody was vapor locked. What a leader! There ain't many like him.
@@dougkelsey9906 If you ever get the chance, watch 'Stephen Fry, Shannon Luminary Lecture'. It's about robotics, A.I and exponential curves, presented by one of the greatest minds in the world.
@@dougkelsey9906 Unless you have already read it, I recommend Gene Kranz's book "Failure Is Not An Option". Kranz's story is totally unputdownable.
.....anyone ever notice at 1:28 in the background, he understands that the simulator is going to need to be used here. He moves over to John Aaron to perhaps begin discussing details, but as SOON as he hears “I want people in the simulators” he jets out to begin work. No questions...just immediately begins carrying out the order. This is a man that can “read the room” very well, as they say. He knew the order was coming.
animalmother556x45 good eye and your comment is greatly appreciated
It's John Watts Young. Check out his outstanding career. He knew exactly, what has to be done...great acting - like everyone else in is this movie...
Most actors sat with their counterparts in prep.
Not sure what John said but he went to get Ken Mattingly. In reality it was Charlie Duke who was woken up. He was sick with measles but was no longer contagious and thus came into help. It wasn't Ken. Another interesting tidbit was that Ken is bald in real life.
He did this because the first thing he knew to do was get Ken Mattingly in the simulator to start a reentry procedure... Without the simulated work from Ken to power up the CM for reentry, they would'nt have made it home
i love these details in movie. very well directed.
I like that his “failure isn’t an option” speech is hinges around exploring every possible avenue to find a solution, not just screaming at his team that they’re too stupid to find a solution.
A good leader motivates his team to rise to the challenge and overcome, not beat his team in the face with looming failure until it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.
Wow...just...
Also, technically speaking you can squeeze a significant amount of power from any device that's specced. So, maybe it says it's good for 12 volts. Well, that means some number between 11.5 and 12.4 volts. If it's good for 12.0 volts, then we have between 11.95 and 12.04 volts to consider. Those approximations multiply against each other, and those discrepancies are where inefficiencies enter the system. Technically speaking, you _could_ run the entire planet on 1 volt, if you timed the energy recuperation next to perfectly. (Ask any electrical engineer, and they'll tell you it's energy _storage_ that's going to kick of us into a new tier quasi-infinitely sustainable energy, not wind, not solar, not oil, not _nuclear,_ we got plenty of source, but it's all in leaky buckets.) Such is the nature of electrical engineering in its current form.
So he wasn't just calling those engineers to show everyone who the boss was around here. He wanted the _actual_ figures, not the quantities printed on the labels, and the best way to do that is to get the actual people who had to do it by hand the first time through. Or, at least that's what I projected into his characterization of that role.
That's how you turn a _"We can't,"_ into a _"Well, we could, but..."_ which in turn is just a single solution away from _"We did."_
Lady Mercy well said and explained. Thank you for teaching me something today.
Right on. Inspiring. I love your bit about the ACTUAL specs vs. the printed ones. People, in many walks of life, always live as if the "printed' ones ARE reality, when, they aren't. the ACTUAL ones are the ones that ACTUALLY matter. So many people in so many situations make decisions (and the wrong ones, I'll add,) by living by the supposed printed ones instead of the actual ones. You can do seemingly amazing things if you learn the actuals. and Hey, I made up a word, "actuals." muahaha.
@@ladymercy5275 Yep. That is the essence of a great leader and engineer. One who pushes beyond what a device was meant to do, and got to what it CAN do.
On point. He opens up with a clear declaration. "Gentlemen, that's unacceptable", then closes it out with another one: "Failure is not an Option."
Notices how he refers to the team as Gentlemen. Absolutely astounding leadership, motivation, and respect exemplified here.
Gene Kranz is the kind of man you want leading your team in a crisis. Level headed, listens to the people giving him advice, and then makes the call. I would love to work for someone like that, just once in my life.
Gentlemen that's not acceptable they are falling short and going to die seriously
John Aaron, the "steely-eyed missile man", the legendary NASA flight controller, who not only helped Apollo 12 to reach orbit after a bolt of lightning hit the Saturn V in launch, but also had a critical role in developing the energy saving technique to save the crew of Apollo 13.
JOHN AARON THE
One of my "heroes".
Are you quoting Jim Lovell from the DVD commentary?
IronMan93 was he also the man who sent 1 man solo out to 5000 km in space and had that man return safely ? Seems like no Russian or American actually left Earth's orbit for any distance attempts since there are no space records for any Russian or American ever being out at 500 km or 2000 km Solo. Everything humans do have records for distances height , depth and some how humans went from low Earth orbit Directly to the Moon with no one going out there to start the distance records? Do you know how preposterous asking who was the first human to be at 1500 km away from Earth Solo and returned, but there is no answer!!!. To reach the Moon it would of taken many trips, many distance records broken, even lost crews with accidents. None of this ever happened there is no human that can say they were 500 km from Earth in a Solo flight and returned to Earth!. Also from 1973-2018 no Rover has ever landed on any of the Apollo 11-16 mission landings and took ground footage of any of the sites. This is very disturbing as billions of dollars of USA intellectual property was left there and Russia which landed dozens of probes there could of easily stolen anything as no video footage exists from 1973-2018 of any of the Apollo sites.
Apollo 12. "SCE to Aux." Some will know.
Ed Harris is such a great actor. I've never seen him give a bad performance, not once.
This movie casting is downright ridiculous
true he is very underrated
@Rick O'Shay no, nepotism *is* a bad thing.
what this movie shows is that just because a situation *looks* like nepotism, doesn't mean it *is* nepotism.
@@Simonpt2000 No he's not. Everyone knows he delivers. I really despise this knee jerk response on CZcams clips to offer "underrated" as a comment.
Have you seen "Alamo Bay" because that is the first thing I ever saw him in. I had no idea who he was but he blew me away. Talk about portraying someone who's conflicted about their principles. It's hard to find that movie online. I wish I could see it again.
@@charlieross-BRM
I believe Simon was referring to the fact that Ed Harris isn't nearly as famous as some truly 'meh' actors despite his considerable talent. He's 'that guy' famous.
"You can't run a vacuum cleaner on 12 amps, John" That line is so crucial... puts into perspective the dire situation and the genius and guts of all involved
thats true but i also think because 12 amp vacuums were being advertised at the time of making this film as well LOL
A lot of these lines are to help the audience understand what these guys are talking about. In real life, they talked real different because they all understood the tech speak language of engineers. They had to. They all had the education and knowledge to know. We casual audience need examples like this to help.
thats how leaders speak
Sadly trump doesn't speak it!
@@ryan-yw9dy correct!
...and behave
... and listen
@@ryan-yw9dy Actually he does, and thats why he'll win again.
People forget that Gene Kranz was 39 when he flight director in this Apollo 13 mission. He was flight director for Apollo 11 at 36. Many of these guys were in their late 20's and 30's out there.. This was all teamwork that got these astronauts back.
I'd work for Gene in a heartbeat
He'd be one of those bosses that'd make you work 110% every day. And you'd be a better employee for it.
Rob Schmidt
I was 18 and watching our staple for news Walter Cronkite great coverage
toll_booth My family would sit around the TV and listen to Walter Cronkite and other Mercury and earlier Apollo Astronauts discuss Space These were good times Bro .
@@tollboothjason yep and he's the kind of boss who works right with the guys...that's how respect is created..bosses who point fingers and talk are not respected
He expects the best, and gives his best. If you care about your mission, he'll care about you too.
"We've never tested anything like this"
"Hell, we've never even simulated it."
Quote of the episode.
ffs if you are going to quote an amazing movie get the damn quote right...
john tucker chill
I'm perfectly chilled, this movie is far to epic to be butchered :)
@@johntucker23 Apologies for butchering the quote.
"hell, we've never even simulated it."
That's quitter talk
Gene never said this during the Apollo 13 mission but liked the quote so he used it as the title for his memoir.
Summed up the attitude of mission control perfectly.
Gene did say "Failure is not an option" he was interviewed on NBC Nightly News.
@@joegarcia6076 he said he wished he'd said it but he didn't.
What he said was " when things go wrong we calmly lay out all the options, and failure isn't among them"
"Hell, we've never even simulated it before Gene." That line always gets me for encompassing just how grand-a-scale this scene was to Apollo 13
Gene Kranz said he liked it. He said he watched the film and quickly forgot about himself and just thought 'Get those guys outta there'.
This is the second most memorable speech in the movie. My all-time favorite is still "If they could get a washing machine to fly ..." It's a made-up line, but it shows the unbreakable confidence that only a mother could have in her son.
Noemi Yesfir Noemi Yesfir You know you’ve got a great line when the real person who never actually said it (if I’m not mistaken, when asked by the screenwriters if anyone panicked, one of the guys in this scene said “we calmly laid out all the options, and failure was not one of them”) uses it as the title of his autobiography.
I’ve always wondered about that line is she saying that she compares these rockets to a washer machine or is she saying in the future if they happened to make a washing machine fly then he could pilot it?
I love that line. My other one is: “we just put Sir Isaac Newton in the driver’s seat.”
@@76tennboy She's comparing Rockets to a washing machine. Lovel's mother was probably born around the 10/20s and saw technology advance at an exponential rate. The reaction is comparable to that of 80/90 year olds to touch computers.
@@siraethelwulf8914 she was saying her son was a great pilot and if they could get something as unlikely as a washing machine to fly, her Jim would be able to land it.
The acting, directing, blocking, editing, writing, is just outstanding in this scene. Loren Dean and Ed Harris both deserved Academy Award nominations for their performances.
Ron Howard, who, by the way, had to convincingly direct actors in a reduced gravity aircraft, wasn't even nominated for an Oscar.
Ed Harris absolutely slayed this role. Simply brilliant performance
I grew up in Cocoa Beach and my late father was a Radar Guidance Engineer out at The Cape from 1957 - 1976...he worked for G.E. He had been involved with the Mercury and Gemini program but wasn't on the Apollo program, yet when the 13 malfunctions were getting ugly he got a call and was told to go in to work to standby...it was all hands on deck for the Engineers when this was playing out (a multi degreed Engineer who retired in 2016 from America's largest defense contractor here in Orlando, Fl.).
steve Fowler Awsome story. So much history.. I grew up in Cocoa as well in the late 90's through 2k's (I'm 24, born in 93) and everything about the shuttle, space, launches, PAFB and all of it's secrecy and security absolutely was the best part of my childhood. Specifically, I grew up on E. Leon Lane In between RonJon's and the Pier, one block from the sand. I will never forget the rush of excitement in the hours before launch.. prepping coolers and snacks, gathering chairs and blankets.. I of course was already on the beach with my bmx while I waited on the fam 😂 Then, all of a sudden.. the whole coast grows silent and tunes into into the most powerful, coolest sounding, pride instilling and awe inspiring pieces of engineering design ever created. I am now, and always will be, extremely envious of the early space program engineers and their ability to recognize, discuss, calculate, and confront a problem on the spot and turn that into a solution. And of course, the fullfillment and pride that must come from that job just make me want to cry cause I'll never experience something like that lol. It seriously defined who I am now. I was dead set on being an Air Force pilot, and one day going to space or working at PAFB, but things change, we moved.. and shortly after NASA was more or less shutdown and workers laid off, and it all became one the best memories I'll ever have. And of course, night launches were the coolest damn thing I had ever seen. Thanks to you and your father for you services in exploration and doing everything you could to keep those boys safe. We left around 2006-08 about the time everything went down hill at KSC/NASA. I'll never, ever be able to forget the images in my head of the VAB from the causeway everyday going inland with Mom to school as she was headed to work, or seeing something from the beach that looked like a baby carrot with a rocket up its butt hurtling toward space 😂 or even all the Awsome shit I got to see being so close to PAFB. Best time of my life, so glad I grew up in that "last of the honest, good kids with no social media/smartphones" and actually had a chance to experience the space program, and be inspired to do bigger things like they did. Truly greatful. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!! -Brandon.
G.E. is now but a shadow of its former self. Its share price has tanked. It's selling off parts of itself just to survive. How the mighty have fallen. Sad, just sad.
Gemini was a great program. No way we could have gotten to the moon without it.
My father was radio guidance as well with GE. He worked on the Mercury & Gemini program too. Small 🌎. I grew up in NY.
My mom made toggle switches for Mercury, Gemini and Apollo.
As exemplary as Kranz is as a model for leadership, the rest of the staff are exemplary as models for followership. They voice their concerns, disagree with each other professionally, but they also LISTEN to each other, and once Aaron makes his case, they all stay quiet not because their boss told them to, but because they know there are more important priorities other than their own.
0:43 We’ve got to get them down to 12 amps.
Audience: 12 Amps? Please translate into something we can grasp.
0:47 You can’t run a vacuum cleaner on 12 amps,John.
Audience:Thank you,screenwriters.
I like that they do not try to dumb down the science too much in the movie, while still making it understandable for regular people. These engineers talk like engineers could talk, instead of trying to explain very basic things to each other like they would do in other movies. Like when a black hole is explained in Interstellar, like he didn't know about a singularity before.
Taps the blackboard twice and then declares “Gentleman, that’s not acceptable.”
Love the line and delivery
Ed Harris is a badass in nearly every movie he does. Hell of an actor!
"Badass" isn't the defining factor with which to grade or judge acting ability.
His characters may be "badass" but that's how they're written and he happens to be cast in such roles. Far from always though.
Aside from “Failure is not an option” I think the best quote in this scene is, “I want you to guys to find every engineer who designed every switch, every circuit, every transistor, and every lightbulb that’s up there then I want you to talk to the guy on the assembly line who actually built the thing”
Failure is not an option was written for the movie, he never actually said it.
@@peterdemkiw3280 Cool
That double tap on the chalk board though!
This is inspiring. This is how brainpower is pushed to the limit. I mean, you can see someone pulling a world record deadlift and pushing his body to the extreme and all his efforts are visible and obvious, but here we see the exact same thing but with problem solving; the determination and the will to succeed at any cost is palpable and is as inspiring if not more than any physical exertion. These are the world's best and they inspire me to push myself to my academic limits.
"Power is everything" #jeremyclarkson
Clarkson did made a film about emptying a car's fuel tank on purpose, and he just make it into a Apollo 13 theme about running out.
"it's not like if you run out (of fuel), you'll skip off the earth's atmosphere and be lost in space, forever"
I love sci-fi/ space movies. What I've noticed a lot in more modern films is that people are giant babies/ reality TV stars flying in space. This movie portrays what it means to be part of the elite that explores space. It was such a delightful throwback to rewatch this on Netflix. The cast is nothing short of legendary and I believe they did the real people they portray, justice.
That's such a great scene. He stays calm, motivates them and makes them clear what the goal is. "We never lost an American in space and we surely won't lose one under my watch." Well done
Sadly we did, during the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. All lost, no survivors.
@Simulation algorithm The NASA of the 1960s - 1970s doesn't exist anymore. Not the drive, nor the technical know-how, nor the vision. What we have is a gelded NASA, far from the futuristic vision we saw in the "2001: A Space Odyssey" movie. It's 2022. Where are the orbital space colonies? The colony on the Moon? The manned missions around the Solar System all shown in the "2001" movie? All not achieved, and not likely to be achieved in the foreseeable future.
"Power is everything"
How right he is
...and this is why I became an electrical engineer.
Good for you, man! How's it going?
You mean specifically, to join the NASA?
so you can repair vacuum cleaners?
Have you figured out how to run a vacuum cleaner on less than 12 amps?
spoken like someone in their first year of college
Great scene, great acting.
Fun fact: Gene Kranz never said "failure is not an option", but thought that line so perfectly summarized the feelings going around Houston that he titled his autobiography Failure is Not an Option.
Krantz really knew how to get the best out of his ground staff. "Failure is not an option" is a truly inspirational mantra!
Written by the film's writers for the movie, Krantz never said it.
He played this role incredibly
1:50 I was quite impressed with how straight Ed Harris drew that dashed chalk line. That's freaking awesome. Most people can't do it that neatly.
Millions of teachers around the world beg to differ with you.
@@omegacon4 The teachers I've seen had quite sloppy chalkboard freehand. One can draw a circle or straight/dashed lines reasonably well if using quick motions, but usually it still looks sloppy. If I know Ed, he probably "practiced" this for a while, as well. He's an actor, not a teacher. Also known for his temper.
now i am just imagining ed harris practicing at a chalk board for hours
What an underrated actor Mr. Harris is... I've never seen him flop, in any movie.
I love this scene. Gene Krantz, a true leader.
0:10 I love how he pokes the board.
"NOT ON MY WATCH!"
"Failure is not an option!" - I have to put that quote on the wall at work :)
I was fortunate enough to meet Gene Kranz a few months ago. It was such an honor, and I came off like a school girl getting to meet The Beatles. He was genuinely kind and answered my rambling questions, and seemed happy to do so. It was a moment I'll never forget. (you can see a photo from that meeting in my profile pic, at least as of this posting).
Boy, you are lucky.
Really cool.
My mother set this as her notification sound, so I hear this every day. This is the first time I see where it's from.
I recommend you to watch the movie. It's awesome.
This actor went from bieng a leader of rescuing astronauts to bieng the leader of an entire train riding through a frozen wasteland
I swear this remains one of my favourite scenes in the history of cinema - you can feel the tension and all kinds of emotion every time. (Not only that Ed Harris as Gene Kranz is the best)
The actor who plays Gene (regretfully I don't know his name but I will look him up) has such a commanding presence that is awesome to watch. Exactly what the character needed and called for.
Miguel Antonio Ed Harris
Ed Harris! Dude is so good in this movie! Hell, EVERY movie he's in!
Ed Harris was born for this role
Ed Harris's acting was amazing in this movie
Gene Kranz is a lot like Captain America, when he tells you to jump you don’t ask “why?” or “how high” you just jump higher then you’ve ever jumped before.
I still love that line @1:36..."I want you find every engineers who designed...."
This movie is a timeless classic, my children will be watching this movie (I have one on the way). This is cinematography done right, also the casting in this movie was damn near perfect.
Tom Hanks
Bill Paxton
Kevin Bacon
Gary Sinese
Ed Harris
My God, Ronny Howard got one hell of a great cast for this film.
Words to live your life to the max :
*"Failure is not an option"*
Failure is not an option! Me just watching in a chair SIR YES SIR!
It's just me or you also love that extra that the music starting on minute 2:00 gives to the whole scene?
This is probably my favorite scene
0:45 the man is a genius
I'd argue Ed Harris in this movie is the best "boss" in movie history.
If only all bosses were so driven and reasonable at the same time.
I just love how he pics up the chalk and taps point a and b ....
"Gentlemen that's unacceptable!"
A superb movie and should be watched by everyone to show what ingenuity is back when all they had to work with were slide rules, and I know what slide rules are since that is all I used when I was in college - 1973 -78 - I was a live when this happened and everyone everywhere stay tuned to their TVs and radios to keep up to date. Both sets of people - in space and on the ground - are heroes in my book.
Me, every time I play Kerbal Space program:
"We've never tested anything like this"
"Hell, we've never even simulated it."
**hits the ’Revert to VAB’ button**
“We never lost an American in space...” IN SPACE. I remembered that horrible tragedy at Cape Canaveral back in January 27, 1967 while watching this movie. Astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee died in a flash fire that broke out while they were in the capsule drilling in a launch simulation. I was 13 at the time, and my Father, who was a test technician at Rocketdyne, Canoga Park, California, came home from work absolutely devastated .
I just keep watching this section over and over again. Ed Harris acting here is beyond legendary.
Dont you just get a shudder of enthusiasm when you hear... "Failure is not an option"?
It was during Apollo 1. Never lost an astronaut 'in space'. Lost several on the ground.
It's a shame Gene never actually said it though, it was written for the movie.
You know Ed Harris plays a bad guy in a lot of films. But when it comes to space movies, we're all on his side.
Gotta love how he listens to the guy with the facts, not the guys with the "buts" and "ifs".
What a great movie
Failure Is Not an Option, it is an eventuality.
LOL the old video clip was like "FAILURE IS NOT.." THEN IT GETS CUT OFF. I guess they read comments, thats good lol
1995 was a great year for movies
"Maxim 70: Failure is not an option. Failure is mandatory. The option is whether or not you allow failure to be the last you do."
1:53 "We've never lost an American in Space, we're sure as hell not gonna loose one on my watch!" My favorite quote.
"Failure is not an option!"
Okay
A real leader listens to those who know, then makes an informed decision.
A boss forces upper management choices down on his subordinates without consideration.
This. This is why Ed Harris is an amazing actor.
Still gives me goosebumps as when I first saw it when it first came out!
One of the few times Movieclips didn't cut off the line.
Exactly what I was thinking haha the sites a joke
I like how everyone agrees on 45 but John says 16 and Gene goes along with the loner. Of course John was right just like Apollo 12 and thus earned that Steeley-Eyed Missle Man compliment (highest NASA gives) to him (it was not the CO2 filter team). Good job all! 25 years later and still impressive. Oh and John is the mayor of a city in Texas last I heard.
As an engineer this is probably in my top 5 of all time movies.
"You can't run a vacuum cleaner on twelve amps!"
I believe this movie is Ron Howard's Magnum Opus.
Can you imagine being one of those Engineers in that room? When he said "Failure is not an option!", not only did he mean it, you wouldn't want to be the weak link in the Mission that caused it...
He never actually said it though, it was written for the movie.
Great saying though, and he wished he'd said it.
the actor that played the mission director is one hell of an actor. the role of a leader is kind of a hard role to play if you catch my drift.
You mean Ed Harris. I mean he's a good actor.
Ed Harris
Excellent 90s acting...great talented people.
Eddie's all gangster in this movie.
Tony Montana said years before. Power is everything.
And so did Cersei Lannister before that.
HaHa!
Unlimited power! (Darth Sidious)
The youngest guy takes command of the conversation here. I love the way he states his case and no one argues. That's the deal?.... that's the deal. No hesitation.
Outstanding.....Failure is not an option!!!!!
We need more flight directors like Gene.
Ed Harris did a powerful Gene Kranz.
Yeah, and he also played an excellent John Glenn in The Right Stuff.
This movie is so far ahead of its time..If it came out next week it would still crush the box office..
I bought this book and I read it so far 5 times and still willing to read more.