Go, Flight!

By Rick Houston, Milt Heflin,

Book cover of Go, Flight!: The Unsung Heroes of Mission Control, 1965-1992

Book description

The inspiration for the documentary Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo

At first glance, it looks like just another auditorium in just another government building. But among the talented men (and later women) who worked in mission control, the room located on the third floor of Building 30-at what…

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1 author picked Go, Flight! as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I enjoyed this book because the authors give much credit to all the Flight Controllers at all the positions including those in the back rooms supporting those in the Mission Operations Control Room.

The book highlights the backgrounds of young ordinary people from “rural America and smokestack towns” who became extraordinary, if not brilliant. They were a band of brothers supporting the first missions to the Moon. 

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