Henry S.F. Cooper Jr. > Quotes

“As additional precautions, Kranz requested that a two-hundred-foot radio antenna (called a deep-space dish) in Australia be added to the global network tracking and communicating with the spacecraft, and that additional computers at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland be what he called "cranked up" -- made ready for use. He also telephoned the Real Time Computer Complex on the ground floor of the Operations Wing to ask that an additional I.B.M. computer be brought onto the line.”
― Henry S.F. Cooper Jr., XIII: The Apollo Flight That Failed

“He also telephoned the Real Time Computer Complex on the ground floor of the Operations Wing to ask that an additional big I.B.M. computer be brought onto the line.”
― Henry S.F. Cooper Jr., XIII: The Apollo Flight That Failed

“Kranz said later that there were only a few things he would do differently if a similar crisis arose again, but one would be to pack off small groups of engineers to other rooms instead of having them all milling around in the same place.”
― Henry S.F. Cooper Jr., Thirteen: The Apollo Flight That Failed