that day i was sitting in mission control and sig scholberg, the deputy, was very concerned about thempact of the spacecraft by this lightning strike, as was kraft. scholberg went down to the trench and started polling these controllers saying hey, whatever happened on the spacecraft, if you don't have the confidence to send it out to the moon, i'll support you in that decision. i have a picture of chris kraft leaning over the console talking to jerry griffin giving him exactly the same coaching. and it was we don't have to go to the moon today, young man. and this immediately relieved the political pressure to achieve the missions to the point where this team had only the technical issues to work. and in the business of mission control, business of spaceflight, what you got to do is you have to make your decisions based on the technical data and that's this team's job to do. and it is up to the people that sit in the consoles behind the flight director to take the political heat from whatever decision had to be made. and this is the kind of inspired leadership that we had in the prog