Table 5.

Example statements and categorization.

Sample critical incidents	Role	Source
“We did some funny TV today. Bill made some large cardboard swim fins, and paddles for his hands, and I televised him in his crazy get-up trying to paddle from one end of the forward compartment to the other. He put lightning bolts on the helmet. I laughed so much I could hardly hold the camera. I made up the dialog to go with it – called him “William Pogue Aerospace Pioneer.” Hope the folks on the ground get a kick out of it.”	Entertainer/jokester	Shayler, 2006
“Thus at an early stage Michael was able to show hospitality to his commander and flight engineer by welcoming them to his quarters to watch a late-night film, after supper together in the Base Block. They were glad of this entertainment and crammed amiably close to each other to watch Michael’s tiny movie theater. …In this way, almost by accident, he set up an early bond with his crewmates which presaged friendship and trust beyond anything normally required in the contracts or international agreements, or in previous binational crews’ experience. This warmth of feeling led to Michael’s first public support of his crewmates against their seemingly rather hard Ground Control taskmasters in Moscow.”	Team builder	Foale, 1999
Jean-Loup said, “I was surprised and impressed by your work together and how you fought to save the experiment.” He smiled and was also in a perfect mood.	Contribution seeker	Lebedev, 1990
“Carr complained that the soap was like dog shampoo. Pogue, the pilot, bitched that the towels–which were made of a synthetic material that was highly fire-resistant–were “sort of like drying off with padded steel wool.” Gibson griped that “the fire-prevention guys really got away with something when they made us go with that kind of material; I don’t think it’s absorbent enough, and I think it’s too hard.”	Negativist	Cooper, 1976
“Garriott, a bemused-looking, thin-faced man with a distinctive mustache that made him look like a western cowpoke, was even more eager to do more. Not only did he urge his crewmates on, he continually requested more work from scientists on the ground. ” “I was thrilled with my crew. Hoot Gibson was a natural-born leader. He didn’t micromanage as some commanders did (one was known to reach completely across the cockpit to make a switch change rather than allow the crewmember at that position to do it.) Hoot gave each of us our duties and set us free to be creative to get the job done.”	Team Player Coordinator	Zimmerman, 2003 Mullane, 2007
“This morning I suggested to Ground Control that we check the C-2 sextant and asked them to give us the location of three or four stars so that we could see one in the middle of the porthole.”	Boundary spanner	Lebedev, 1990