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Failure Is Not An Option

Gene Kranz (foreground, back to camera), an Apollo 13 Flight Director, watches Apollo 13 astronaut and lunar module pilot Fred Haise onscreen in the Mission Operations Control Room, during the mission's fourth television transmission on the evening of April 13, 1970. Shortly after the transmission, an explosion occurred that ended any hope of a lunar landing and jeopardized the lives of the crew..Photo by NASA via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

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RELAY Communications Satellite

The RELAY communications satellite shown in a December 11, 1962 photo released by NASA. The 172-pound spacecraft eight sided prism is 33 inches high and 29 inches in diameter at tis broad end. The exterior composed of eight honeycomb aluminum panels studded with 8,215 solar cells. The communications satellite prime function will be used for technical experiments although public demonstrations of television, telephone calls, teletype photo facsimile, and high speed data will be transmitted. The 18-inch long wideband communications antenna points toward the Earth while Relay travels through space. Three of the four telemetry antennas are shown extending from the broad end. Mounted on the center panel are special solar cells and diodes which will be tested for radiation damage. Relay 1 was launched atop a Delta B rocket on December 13, 1962, from LC-17A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Credit: NASA via CNP

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Message of support from Houston

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa speaks in a teleconference from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, on a television screen at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tokyo office on March 22, 2011. Furukawa, who is slated to launch a five-and-a-half-month-long mission at the International Space Station in May, sent a message of support for victims of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, saying, ''I want children in Tohoku (northeastern Japan) to know that if you make efforts little by little, things will be better tomorrow than today, and better the day after tomorrow than tomorrow, and those efforts will accumulate and become a big power.''

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2 Japanese in space together for 1st time as shuttle docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows Japanese astronaut Shoichi Noguchi (L), who is stationed at the International Space Station, posing as he welcomes U.S. astronaut Clayton Anderson (R) from the U.S. space shuttle Discovery after it docked at the ISS. Noguchi later met with Naoko Yamazaki, another Japanese astronaut on the Discovery, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space.

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2 Japanese in space together for 1st time as shuttle docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki (C) entering the International Space Station from the U.S. space shuttle Discovery. Yamazaki met with Shoichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space.

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2 Japanese in space together for 1st time as shuttle docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki (front) entering the International Space Station from the U.S. space shuttle Discovery with other crew members. Yamazaki met with Shoichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space.

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Discovery docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows the U.S. space shuttle Discovery (C), carrying seven crew members including Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, docking at the International Space Station. Yamazaki met with Soichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space.

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Discovery docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows the U.S. space shuttle Discovery (C), carrying seven crew members including Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, docking at the International Space Station, with the earth in the background. Yamazaki met with Soichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space.

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Discovery docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows the U.S. space shuttle Discovery (C), carrying seven crew members including Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, docking at the International Space Station. Yamazaki met with Soichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space.

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken from NASA Television, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi wearing a Santa Claus hat (2nd from R) and other astronauts at the International Space Station communicate with people on Earth via video conferencing, after Russia's Soyuz space capsule carrying Noguchi and two other astronauts docked at the ISS on Dec. 23, 2009.

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken from NASA Television, astronauts wearing Santa Claus hats, including Japan's Soichi Noguchi (R in back), at the International Space Station are projected on the screen at the Russian mission control center near Moscow on Dec. 23, 2009, after Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft carrying Noguchi and two other astronauts docked at the ISS.

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken from NASA Television, astronauts wearing Santa Claus hats, including Japan's Soichi Noguchi (R in back), at the International Space Station communicate with people on Earth via video conferencing, after Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft carrying Noguchi and two other astronauts docked at the ISS on Dec. 23, 2009.

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken from NASA Television, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi wearing a Santa Claus hat enters the International Space Station, after Russia's Soyuz space capsule carrying Noguchi and two other astronauts docked at the ISS on Dec. 23, 2009.

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken from NASA Television, Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft (C) carrying Japan's Soichi Noguchi and two other astronauts approaches the International Space Station to dock on Dec. 23, 2009. Noguchi, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and U.S. astronaut Timothy Creamer will stay at the ISS for five months.

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken from NASA Television, Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft (C) carrying Japan's Soichi Noguchi and two other astronauts approaches the International Space Station to dock on Dec. 23, 2009. Noguchi, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and U.S. astronaut Timothy Creamer will stay at the ISS for five months.

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Soyuz astronaut Noguchi lifts off from Kazakhstan

TOKYO, Japan - NASA television shows Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi inside Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft on Dec. 21, 2009. The spacecraft carrying Noguchi and two other astronauts successfully reached orbit shortly after a predawn liftoff from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan earlier in the day.

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Hoshide enters Japanese space lab Kibo

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide floats toward a television camera with a sign that says ''Welcome'' in both English and Japanese on June 4. Hoshide entered Japan's Kibo research laboratory connected to the International Space Station the same day. (NASA TV/Kyodo)

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Shuttle crew install main component of Japanese laboratory unit

HOUSTON, United States - The main component of Japan's Kibo space laboratory (R), taken out of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery, is installed to the International Space Station (L) on June 3. Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide played a major role in the installation of the core unit of the laboratory. (NASA television)

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Shuttle crew install main component of Japanese laboratory unit

HOUSTON, United States - The main component of Japan's Kibo space laboratory (C) is taken out of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery by a robotic arm of the International Space Station (R) on June 3. At left is the Earth. (NASA television)

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Discovery's return to Earth put off to Tuesday due to weather: NASA

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States - Journalists and television crews await the return of the space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Aug. 8. NASA announced later that the landing has been put off to Aug. 9 due to cloudy weather at the center.

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NASA engineer flies his Japanese rescuers to L.A.

LOS ANGELES, United States - Leonard Efron (R), a senior NASA engineer, poses with Keiko Asano (C) and Kazuhito Hachiya (L) both from Chiba Prefecture, at a television station on a Los Angeles suburb July 6. He has paid the flight expenses to bring the two Japanese mountain climbers to Los Angeles. Efron fell about 100 meters while descending Mt. Fuji last year and sustained serious injuries before Asano and Hachiya came to his rescue.

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Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Dead At 90

File photo - Los Angeles, CA - -- The Apollo 11 Astronauts pose for a photo with United States President Richard M. Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew prior to the lavish state dinner in the Astronauts' honor at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California on August 14, 1969. From left to right: Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, Jr., Michael Collins, President Nixon, Neil A. Armstrong, and Vice President Agnew.. --- American astronaut Michael Collins, who flew the Apollo 11 command module while his crewmates became the first people to land on the Moon on July 20, 1969, died on Wednesday after battling cancer, his family said. Photo by Deris Jeannette / CNP /ABACAPRESS.COM

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Discovery astronaut Noguchi takes spacewalk

HOUSTON, United States - NASA television shows Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi on the U.S. space shuttle Discovery conducting the mission's first spacewalk July 30 to test damage-repair techniques developed after the Columbia disaster. (Kyodo)

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Discovery astronaut Noguchi takes spacewalk

HOUSTON, United States - NASA television shows Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi (R) exiting a hatch of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery to conduct the mission's first spacewalk July 30 to test damage-repair techniques developed after the Columbia disaster. (Kyodo)

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Discovery astronaut Noguchi takes spacewalk

HOUSTON, United States - NASA television shows Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi on the U.S. space shuttle Discovery conducting the mission's first spacewalk July 30 to test damage-repair techniques developed after the Columbia disaster. (Kyodo)

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Discovery's return to Earth put off to Tuesday due to weather: N

CAPE CANAVERAL, United States - Journalists and television crews await the return of the space shuttle Discovery at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Aug. 8. NASA announced later that the landing has been put off to Aug. 9 due to cloudy weather at the center. (Kyodo)

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Shuttle crew install main component of Japanese laboratory unit

HOUSTON, United States - The main component of Japan's Kibo space laboratory (C) is taken out of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery by a robotic arm of the International Space Station (R) on June 3. At left is the Earth. (NASA television)(Kyodo)

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Shuttle crew install main component of Japanese laboratory unit

HOUSTON, United States - The main component of Japan's Kibo space laboratory (C) is taken out of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery by a robotic arm of the International Space Station (R) on June 3. At left is the Earth. (NASA television)(Kyodo)

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Japanese astronaut Hoshide works in Int'l Space Station

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, 39, one of the crew of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery, works in the International Space Station. (NASA television)(Kyodo)

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Shuttle crew install main component of Japanese laboratory unit

HOUSTON, United States - The main component of Japan's Kibo space laboratory (C) is taken out of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery by a robotic arm of the International Space Station (R) on June 3. At left is the Earth. (NASA television)(Kyodo)

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Shuttle crew install main component of Japanese laboratory unit

HOUSTON, United States - The main component of Japan's Kibo space laboratory (R), taken out of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery, is installed to the International Space Station (L) on June 3. Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide played a major role in the installation of the core unit of the laboratory. (NASA television)(Kyodo)

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Hoshide enters Japanese space lab Kibo

HOUSTON, United States - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide floats toward a television camera with a sign that says ''Welcome'' in both English and Japanese on June 4. Hoshide entered Japan's Kibo research laboratory connected to the International Space Station the same day. (NASA TV/Kyodo) (Kyodo)

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Discovery lands in California

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, United States - NASA television shows the seven-member crew of the U.S. space shuttle Discovery after the shuttle landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California Aug. 9. (Kyodo)

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Discovery lands in California

EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, United States - NASA television shows the U.S. space shuttle Discovery landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California Aug. 9, bringing its seven-member crew safely back to Earth after a 15-day mission. (Kyodo)

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Discovery astronaut Noguchi takes spacewalk

HOUSTON, United States - NASA television shows Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi on the U.S. space shuttle Discovery conducting the mission's first spacewalk July 30 to test damage-repair techniques developed after the Columbia disaster. (Kyodo)

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NASA engineer flies his Japanese rescuers to L.A.

LOS ANGELES, United States - Leonard Efron (R), a senior NASA engineer, poses with Keiko Asano (C) and Kazuhito Hachiya (L) both from Chiba Prefecture, at a television station on a Los Angeles suburb July 6. He has paid the flight expenses to bring the two Japanese mountain climbers to Los Angeles. Efron fell about 100 meters while descending Mt. Fuji last year and sustained serious injuries before Asano and Hachiya came to his rescue.

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Spacecraft with Japan, U.S., Russia crew docks with ISS

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft (top), carrying three astronauts from Japan, Russia and the United States, approaches the International Space Station before docking past 1 p.m. Japan time on July 9, 2016. (NASA Television)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Spacecraft with Japan, U.S., Russia crew docks with ISS

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft (L), carrying three astronauts from Japan, Russia and the United States, approaches the International Space Station before docking past 1 p.m. Japan time on July 9, 2016. (NASA Television)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Spacecraft with Japan, U.S., Russia crew docks with ISS

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, carrying three astronauts from Japan, Russia and the United States, approaches the International Space Station before docking past 1 p.m. Japan time on July 9, 2016. (NASA Television)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Spacecraft with Japan, U.S., Russia crew docks with ISS

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft (L), carrying three astronauts from Japan, Russia and the United States, docks with the International Space Station past 1 p.m. Japan time on July 9, 2016. (NASA Television)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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(CORRECTED) Discovery docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows the U.S. space shuttle Discovery (C), carrying seven crew members including Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, docking at the International Space Station. Yamazaki met with Soichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space. (Kyodo)

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2 Japanese in space together for 1st time as shuttle docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows Japanese astronaut Shoichi Noguchi (L), who is stationed at the International Space Station, posing as he welcomes U.S. astronaut Clayton Anderson (R) from the U.S. space shuttle Discovery after it docked at the ISS. Noguchi later met with Naoko Yamazaki, another Japanese astronaut on the Discovery, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space. (Kyodo) (Kyodo)

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(CORRECTED) Discovery docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows the U.S. space shuttle Discovery (C), carrying seven crew members including Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, docking at the International Space Station. Yamazaki met with Soichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space. (Kyodo)

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Discovery docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows the U.S. space shuttle Discovery (C), carrying seven crew members including Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, docking at the International Space Station, with the earth in the background. Yamazaki met with Soichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space. (Kyodo)

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2 Japanese in space together for 1st time as shuttle docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki (front) entering the International Space Station from the U.S. space shuttle Discovery with other crew members. Yamazaki met with Shoichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space. (Kyodo)

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2 Japanese in space together for 1st time as shuttle docks at ISS

TOKYO, Japan - NASA Television on April 7, 2010 in Tokyo shows Japanese astronaut Naoko Yamazaki (C) entering the International Space Station from the U.S. space shuttle Discovery. Yamazaki met with Shoichi Noguchi, another Japanese astronaut who was already stationed at the ISS, for the first such meeting between two Japanese astronauts in space. (Kyodo)

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken from NASA Television, astronauts wearing Santa Claus hats, including Japan's Soichi Noguchi (R in back), at the International Space Station are projected on the screen at the Russian mission control center near Moscow on Dec. 23, 2009, after Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft carrying Noguchi and two other astronauts docked at the ISS. (Kyodo)

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken from NASA Television, astronauts wearing Santa Claus hats, including Japan's Soichi Noguchi (R in back), at the International Space Station communicate with people on Earth via video conferencing, after Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft carrying Noguchi and two other astronauts docked at the ISS on Dec. 23, 2009. (Kyodo)

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken from NASA Television, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi wearing a Santa Claus hat (2nd from R) and other astronauts at the International Space Station communicate with people on Earth via video conferencing, after Russia's Soyuz space capsule carrying Noguchi and two other astronauts docked at the ISS on Dec. 23, 2009. (Kyodo)

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Noguchi, 2 other astronauts arrive at Int'l Space Station

TOKYO, Japan - In this photo taken from NASA Television, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi wearing a Santa Claus hat enters the International Space Station, after Russia's Soyuz space capsule carrying Noguchi and two other astronauts docked at the ISS on Dec. 23, 2009. (Kyodo)