Sublime

Lovell was able to complete the job in comparatively short order. When he was finished, he reflected that it was a good procedure for any Apollo commander to have in his back pocket. In the event that a future spacecraft ever suffered a catastrophic systems failure, the first thing he’d need to know would be how to get the ship pointed properly aga

Among Kelly Johnson’s strengths was a sure grasp of what mattered to his people and what didn’t. Most of them were engineers and tinkerers who hated paperwork, which he cut to an absolute minimum.

surgeon.

Taylor was the epitome of the leader as facilitator. He understood the wisdom of an observation that Xerox’s chief scientist and PARC advocate Jack Goldman had clipped from a newspaper and hung in his office: “There are two ways of being creative. One can sing and dance. Or one can create an environment in which singers and dancers flourish.”