I just read this and found it to be... very motivational. Sort of... makes me want to be the best I can be.
Background: Just after the Apollo 1 accident, flight directer Gene Kranz delivered the following 'pep talk'.
"Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtua