From Crisis to Our Finest Hour

During a tense scene in the 1995 movie Apollo 13, someone at Mission Control stated, “This could be the worst disaster NASA has ever experienced.” Flight director Gary Kranz, played by Ed Harris, replied, “With all due respect, sir, I believe this is gonna be our finest hour.” He later went on to famously say, “Failure is not an option.”

Having lived through the last year and a half, many of us can agree that we collectively encountered tremendous challenges. When I began my term as IFT pres…