“He’s got to be the best motivator of people I ever had anything to do with,” said Rod Loe of Kraft. For example, said Loe: During Gemini, Loe, a flight controller for the environmental control system, was worried about one of his subsystems. He couldn’t get the contractor in charge of it to pay any attention to him—Loe was just a little guy. Kraft somehow heard about this, and when a few days later the contractor people were discussing another problem with Kraft, Kraft casually walked over to Loe and put his arm on his shoulder and asked, “What do you think, Rod?” That’s all it took. “‘Rod?
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