If you had a change you wanted to propose in the spacecraft, and if it got by the Change Board, the last step in the process was to go into Shea’s office on the seventh floor over in Building 2 at M.S.C. You’d walk in, and there Joe would be, by himself, behind his desk, and you had to explain to him what it was you wanted and why it was absolutely essential that this change be made in the spacecraft. And then Joe would begin to grill you. There was no point in trying to sidestep or fudge an answer. It made no difference if Shea wasn’t a specialist in your area. “If you understand it, you can
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