Word: overcommitment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there. Naturally, we're indebted to the country. We've got to pay them back and give them this information, but we don't have to give them an appearance. We've done that, and I sort of feel badly about having to overcommit ourselves to these extraneous appearances." Schirra also complained about NASA's nearly 40-minute delay in flashing word to an anxious world that Astronaut Scott Carpenter's capsule had survived re-entry at the end of his triple orbit on May 24. "We knew where Scott was," said Schirra...