When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions (TV Mini Series)

Mercury: Ordinary Supermen (2008)

Gene Kranz: Self - Assistant Flight Director

Quotes 

• Gene Kranz : Most of us came in from aircraft flight test. We knew nothing about rocketry, we knew nothing about spacecraft, we knew nothing about orbits.

  Narrator : Gene Kranz joins the Flight Director's team in NASA's earliest days.

  Gene Kranz : So it was a question of learning to drink from a fire hose. We had to learn all about trajectories; I'd never heard the term "retrofire," coming on down from orbit, getting the spacecraft back home.