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Publication: Automotive Design & Production
Publication Date: 01-DEC-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Rarely do find I find myself getting emotional when it comes to speeches made at industry conferences. The usual motivational gibberish foisted upon the audience from an expert standing firmly behind a podium often leaves me yawning and checking my Blackberry repeatedly to see if any new email has arrived that needs my attention--or that can distract my attention. That wasn't the case when I recently attended a conference at Detroit's Cobo Center to hear an address from Gene Kranz, the former director of mission operations at NASA during the famed Apollo 11 and Apollo 13 missions.

Kranz delivered his speech--I should say "talk"--without any cue cards or teleprompter assistance; he just talked off the cuff about the joys and perils that NASA experienced as it moved in solemn determination on its path to...

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