How long does it take to read Failure Is Not an Option?
Gene Kranz
Failure Is Not an Option by Gene Kranz takes about 9 hours 53 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 9 hours 53 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1999. 539 pages, about 148,225 words.
20 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 16 hours 28 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 9 hours 53 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 6 hours 11 minutes |
The page count is the median across 8 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Kranz was flight director for both Apollo 11, the mission in which Neil Armstrong fulfilled President Kennedy's pledge, and Apollo 13. He headed the Tiger Team that had to figure out how to bring the three Apollo 13 astronauts safely back to Earth. (In the film Apollo 13, Kranz was played by the actor Ed Harris, who earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance.)". "In Failure Is Not an Option, Gene Kranz recounts these historic events and offers new information about the famous flights. What appeared as nearly flawless missions to the Moon were, in fact, a series of hair-raising near misses. When the space technology failed, as it sometimes did, the controllers' only recourse was to rely on their skills and those of their teammates. Kranz takes us inside Mission Control and introduces us to some of the whiz kids - still in their twenties, only a few years out of college - who had to figure it all out as they went along, creating a great and daring enterprise. He reveals behind-the-scenes details to demonstrate the leadership, discipline, trust, and teamwork that made the space program a success."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Systems engineering, Ground support systems (Astronautics), Manned space flight, United States, History, Kranz, Gene
