“We are constantly emphasizing to people that they need to address anything that affects flight safety or mission success, many pathways to do that, and we need to understand better what might be preventing people from using those pathways.” PeopleNeedsMaySafetyMissionsFlightAddressesPathwaysPreventing Author:Ellen Ochoa
“Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily.” ShouldHas BeensProblemBehindsSawsTroubleDesignChangedElementsAreasProgramShould HaveTestsSafetyCaughtMissionsFlightEach DayAviationNeglectLockedTolerateSchedulesCould Have BeenProceduresScrewed UpCarelessnessIncapacitySpaceflight Book:Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond Source: Failure Is Not an Option: Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond
“From this day forward, Flight Control will be known by two words: "Tough" and "Competent." Tough means we are forever accountable for what we do or what we fail to do. We will never again compromise our responsibilities. Every time we walk into Mission Control we will know what we stand for. Competent means we will never take anything for granted. We will never be found short in our knowledge and in our skills.” KnowsMeanTwoFoundWalksResponsibilityKnownForeverFailingSkillsToughSafetyMissionsFlightCompromiseGrantedAviationThis DayCompetentNever Take Anything For Granted Author:Gene Kranz
“Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write "Tough and Competent" on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control.” WritingFirstsTodayWhitePerfectRoomsOfficeToughPaidSafetyMeetingsMissionsEach DayAviationCompetentAdmissionBlackboard Author:Gene Kranz
“Our motto is to work for peace based on social justice. Our mandate is to improve the condition, health and safety of workers, and our mission is universal.” SocialJusticeConditionsUniversalSafetySocial JusticeWorkersMissionsMottoMandatesHealth And Safety Author:David A. Morse
“In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress.” PersonsSuccessfulSafetyMissionsFlyingAviationRescueDistressExpertiseContributingVariablesPreparedness Author:Tom Gross
“There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask, and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to.” IfsWantMindRealWould BeFacesAsksProcessCrazyDangerConcernSafetyMissionsRationalAviationCombatSaneGroundedFlewBeing CrazyYossarianCatch 22 Important Author:Joseph Heller
“Our mission has been the protection of the wage-worker, now; to increase his wages; to cut hours off the long workday, which was killing him; to improve the safety and the sanitary conditions of the workshop; to free him from the tyrannies, petty or otherwise, which served to make his existence a slavery.” LongHas BeensHoursExistenceCuttingConditionsIncreaseSafetySlaveryWorkersKillingMissionsProtectionTyrannyWagesPettyWorkshopsSanitary Book:The American Federationist Source: The American Federationist
“For years I have made it my mission to destroy the influence of the Christian clich, 'the safest place to be is in the center of the will of God.' God would never choose for us safety at the cost of significance. God created you so that your life would count, not so that you could count the days of your life.” YearsMadeChristianInfluenceCostSafetyMissionsGods WillMade ItSignificance Author:Erwin McManus