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... got close to a spacecraft again, because not only did his own personal arrogance and ego do him in, and he was probably at the point where he wasn’t going ... , there’s no weight, no anything. It’s not like anything. It was just astronaut ego. So that sort of prevailed the whole flight. I also remember going to—I think ... ’t think anybody is doing that stuff now. But this was just somebody’s big ego got in there. But it really soured that whole feeling about it. There was euphoria ...

... together as a team. NASA has, and did have, a lot of people with big egos. I tend to tell myself at least that that's a bad thing, that the ... was very quiet. Didn't say very much. Very polite. But didn't have the ego that some of them had. He had nominated me as a title that he had ... a book to say how it really was. The personalities—there were fights, there were egos. There still are. People that didn't agree with each other, people that didn't ...

... who delude themselves every day of the week in all areas of life because of ego-driven psychopathology; and (2) I agreed completely (and deeply) with Hebb's argument which Sagan ... who tried to undo their work, all for the sake of petty things like personal ego and vanity. Fifth - like Isaac Newton, I believe that the Greek Bible used today was ... of the past have always been right to struggle with the oppressive kind of rational ego, which does not open itself up to the greater realities of life. But it is ...

... there three times with that thing and had a lot of publicity, you know. Big ego thing, you know, and so on, but you can't buy any coffee with it ... that and so on. It was quite a boost to the old ego if you have any kind of ego, if you're just a peon who got exposed to something. '''Rusnak ...

... have crashed into us if we had moved. So, that kind of thing. There were egos abound, like with Tom Thomas P. Stafford. He was the commander of that thing. He ... . So it's that kind of anecdotal material that abounds in the program. Among the egos, of course, was Walt Walter M. Shirra Jr. , who his buddies in the astronaut corps ... around, and, of course, it meant I had to be sure I asked questions, too. Egos don't get by in that business, especially if Christopher C. Kraft's Jr. still ...

... ground, particularly when you're dealing with a bunch of men that all have big egos and we all think we're great already. I mean, we get here, and suddenly ... others because you know they don't have the background yet. So, it's not ego. It's more of—here's twenty people. Maybe two have got a good idea ...

... . '''Coplin:''' Yes. With high achievers, high achievers. '''Wright:''' Military backgrounds, a lot of ego. '''Coplin:''' A lot of egos. A lot of the problem too in the office—not a problem, but ...

... not sure I want to hear all about." But some of these guys had large egos. They were pains in the butt, to be very frank about it. As you can ... was that kind of a competition. There was also the competition because of the various egos involved, if I may say that, you had Christopher Columbus Kraft running the Flight Ops ...

... , very smart. They were all class Type A personalities. The majority of them had no ego whatsoever; they were very humble. Each said, you know, “If I sit and think, there ... any failure that occurred, I could handle. It was where I slipped back into an ego thing. I anticipated failures that I would correct and then the newspaper would say, “Gregory ...

... ) were outlined. Prominently among them: sounding rockets; ionosphere explorers and monitors ; atmospheric structure satellite; Oso , Ego , Pogo satellites; Imp , Pioneer , Mariner , and Surveyor probes. ''(IG Bulletin, 1/63, 12-19)'' Engineers ...

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