![]() ![]() ![]() Honestly, I can still hear the crackle in that radio and see the sparkle in my grandfather’s eye as we heard Paul Harvey’s famous line, “And now you know the rest of the story.” So here is my rest of the story moment, Columbia did a whole article on Gene Kranz and his career at NASA (by memory I think that article was in March of 2018 or around that time), but what I did not know until reading that story was that Mr. When I would visit my maternal grandfather he loved to listen to Paul Harvey on the radio during lunch. As you may have already guessed, the man that Ed Harris portrayed was none other than Gene Kranz, but that hardly tells the story. ![]() Little did I know that 2 years ago I would discover the answer in the Knights of Columbus magazine Columbia. You know, the guy in the vest with the high and tight hair cut making split-second decisions under immense pressure. I remember wondering throughout that movie who the mission control man was that Ed Harris portrayed. More years ago, than it really seems, my wife and I found ourselves on a date night in Wichita watching Tom Hanks in Apollo 13. 0 Shares Book Review: Failure Is Not an Option By: Gene Kranz ![]()
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