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latest Guest Announcement - Jerry Bostick

 

Mission control Apollo 13 FDO Flight Dynamics Officer

 

NASA CAREER:

NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia Aerospace Engineer, Structures Division (1962)

NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas Aerospace Engineer, Mission Planning and Analysis Division (1962-1965) Flight Dynamics Officer, Flight Dynamics Officer Section, Flight Dynamics Branch

(1965-1966) Range Safety Representative (1968-1973) Head, Flight Dynamics Officer Section, Flight Dynamics Branch (1966-1968) Chief, Flight Dynamics Branch (1968-1973)

NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. Assistant Executive Secretary, Office of Administrator (1973-1974) Office of Energy Program (1974) Special Assistant for Programs, Office of Energy Programs (1974) Director, Energy Technology Applications Division, Office of Energy Programs

(1974-1975) NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas

Chief, Technical Planning Office (1975-1976) Manager, Payload Deployment and Retrieval Systems Office (1976-1979) Deputy Manager, Space Transportation System (STS) Program Office (1979-1982) Acting Manager, STS Operations Program (1982-1982) Deputy Manager, Space Shuttle Program (1982-1983) Director, Mission Support (1983-1984)

POST-NASA CAREER:

Vice President, Space Systems, Grumman Aerospace Corporation, Houston, TX Director, Business Development, Northrop Grumman Corporation, Houston, TX Technical Advisor, “Apollo 13†Movie (1994)

 

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FILM CAREER

 

Apollo 13 - Technical Consultant

 

Lost Moon: The Triumph of Apollo 13 (video documentary) - Himself, Special Thanks

 

Armageddon - Mission Control Advisor

 

From the Earth to the Moon (TV mini-series) - Technical Consultant (4 episodes, 1998)

 

 

Explanation by Jerry Bostick about the term 'Failure is not an option"

 

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.

 

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From left to right: Ron Howard, Mike Bostick, Jerry Bostick, Tom Hanks

 

 

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Among those pictured above during the Apollo 13 rescue are: Glynn Lunney (lower left), Bill Tindall (seated beside Mr. Lunney with his chin in his hand), Christopher Kraft (standing beside Mr. Tindall with cigar in left hand), and Jerry Bostick (wearing a sportscoat and tie and looking over Tindall's right shoulder)]

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Hi There

Yes unfortunately we were not allowed to respond to comments which were not only inaccurate but also made us out to be lying about our guest list.

Whichever way you look at it and whichever way you dress it, comments like that make people feel we are trying to misslead them.

We have never and will never add a guest to our list unless we are sure they are coming.

The only place for accurate up to date information is this forum.

Anyway we already have so far Scott, Jerry and Ed so a great line up with a good few months to go.

Thanks for the support though.

Best

Dave Phillips

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