{"id":2159,"date":"2019-05-18T12:22:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T19:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2020-01-19T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2020-01-19T20:50:11","slug":"gene-kranz%e2%80%8b-on-spacemanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/18\/gene-kranz%e2%80%8b-on-spacemanship\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Kranz\u200b on spacemanship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cAn engineer can explain how a system should \u0003work (in theory) but an operator has to know \u0003what the engineer knows and then has to know \u0003how the systems tie together to get the mission\u0003 accomplished. If the systems break down the \u0003operator must make rapid decisions on fixing\u0003 or working around the problem \u0003to keep the mission moving.\u0003\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1452\" src=\"http:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gene-2000x1452.jpg\" alt=\"Gene Kranz quote\" class=\"wp-image-2161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gene-2000x1452.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gene-150x109.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gene-600x435.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/gene-768x557.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gene Kranz \u2014 aerospace engineer, fighter pilot, NASA flight director \u2014 with timeless wisdom on the difference between engineers and operators, in his 2000 book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0743200799\/amaz09b9-20\"><em>Failure Is Not An Option<\/em><\/a>. Original photo source NASA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAn engineer can explain how a system should \u0003work (in theory) but an operator has to know \u0003what the engineer knows and then has to know \u0003how the systems tie together to get the mission\u0003 accomplished. If the systems break down the \u0003operator must make rapid decisions on fixing\u0003 or working around the problem \u0003to keep the mission moving.\u0003\u201d Gene Kranz \u2014 aerospace engineer, fighter pilot, NASA flight director \u2014 with timeless wisdom on the difference between engineers and operators, in his 2000 book Failure Is Not An Option. Original photo source NASA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[216,57,187,164],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-engineering","tag-safety","tag-safetyii","tag-space-ops"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.innerairmanship.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}