But some of the most profound changes were in the spirit and attitude of the engineers who would go on to take Apollo to the moon. Shaken out of the complacency and arrogance that had set in during the successes of the Mercury and Gemini missions, the technicians embraced a new earnestness, and a shared focus on the hard work necessary to take men to the lunar surface before the end of the decade. But for the young engineers at NASA, the idea of the program as a stirring adventure, and the early exhilaration of constantly improvising solutions to previously unimagined technical challenges, was
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