and i assigned one of my more trusted controllers -- it was arnie aldridge. he had been with us since very

and i assigned one of my more trusted controllers -- it was arnie aldridge. he had been with us since very early in the "mercury" program. he's remote site engineering. he sort of became the model for the system engineers that we used in mission control. so arnie was given the job to sort of be the individual who would maintain the master set of checklists for the remainder of the entire mission. john aaron, a new controller, had joined us in the "gemini" program, was given the responsibility to sit on top of all consumables, all resources available on both spacecrafts. and john aaron had absolute veto authority over any checklist entry. so they were almost welded at the hips with aaron being the guy who had the veto authority. a third one -- it was obvious we needed -- was some guy to figure out how to turn the lifeboat into a survival vehicle. bill peters, one of my limb controllers, got that. basically these were the three key individuals and i told these three people to look around the room and anybody that they didn't think they needed for the next few ho