Tag: Leadership Under Pressure
🚀 Apollo 13 – The Anatomy of Risk and Redemption
1. The Mission That Didn’t Go as Planned By April 1970, NASA had already achieved the impossible — humans had walked on the Moon. Apollo 13 was meant to be just another chapter in a now-routine story of success. But as any project manager knows, complacency is the quietest risk of all. Just two days…
🚀 The Challenger Disaster – When Quality Lost to Pressure
1. The Morning That Changed Project Quality Forever January 28, 1986, dawned unusually cold at the Kennedy Space Center. Frost covered the launch pad. NASA’s engineers, watching weather reports, grew uneasy. They knew the O-rings — tiny rubber seals in the solid rocket boosters — had a dangerous weakness: they lost elasticity in low temperatures.…
