<P> "As far as the expression' Failure is not an option', you are correct that Kranz never used that term . In preparation for the movie, the script writers, Al Reinart and Bill Broyles, came down to Clear Lake to interview me on "What are the people in Mission Control really like?" One of their questions was "Weren't there times when everybody, or at least a few people, just panicked?" My answer was "No, when bad things happened, we just calmly laid out all the options, and failure was not one of them . We never panicked, and we never gave up on finding a solution ." I immediately sensed that Bill Broyles wanted to leave and assumed that he was bored with the interview . Only months later did I learn that when they got in their car to leave, he started screaming, "That's it! That's the tag line for the whole movie, Failure is not an option . Now we just have to figure out who to have say it ." Of course, they gave it to the Kranz character, and the rest is history ." </P> <P> Kranz chose it as the title of his 2000 autobiography because he liked the way the line reflected the attitude of mission control . In the book, he states, "a creed that we (NASA's Mission Control Center) all lived by:' Failure is not an option"', though the book does not indicate that the phrase is apocryphal . </P> <P> The association of the quote Failure is not an option with the Apollo 13 mission comes about due to its appearance in the film Apollo 13 uttered by Ed Harris, who was playing Gene Kranz, and said "We've never lost an American in space; we're sure as hell not going to lose one on my watch . Failure is not an option ." </P>

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